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MzHartz


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From "moosh in indy":

what are miles when we have wireless?

Would you say youve met people you could call your friends online?

Of course. I flew out in less that 24 hours to be by the side of a friend whom I consider to be one of the closest I have ever had whom I met online and had only met in person three times before that.

Oh, wow. Sobut that must be pretty rare right?

No, its not rare, I daresay every single person who has developed any sort of online community has that one person theyd get to anyway they could if they needed them. I have plenty of friends Id give or do anything for even though Ive never met them in person. This is not a unique situation. This is our community.

Maybe Im naive. But it seems to me that we all have each others backs. It may be strange to those who dont live in our world (my husband likes to call it my little Internet world) but if a cry for help goes up on the Internet? It gets answered. Sometimes in different degrees. But as far as I can tell?

It always gets answered.

One of my many brilliant readers said this on my post last week about when online communities rally:

People are skeptical of online relationships. But the key word here is community. Community is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage .

Online is our common cultural and historical heritage. Maybe some folks dont understand why we can derive from folks we have never metbut why do we put so much emphasis on seeing people. If we were all blind would that make us less of a community because we interacted with people we didnt see? NO! This community is amazing, can be amazing and yet it mirrors our everyday face to face life, in many ways.

In both online and face to face communities there can be viciousness, anger, trollish behavior,apathy, etc. And in both online and face to face communities we find support, love, comfort and understanding.

The only difference is one community is carried out on line.that is the only difference

Word.

Just because I havent seen your face doesnt mean Im not going to giggle over your child trying to replace you with a Barbie sticker. Or ignore the fact that youre hurting. Or deny how freakishly in common we are and oh my gosh we have to get together and eat cupcakes and spy on the celebrities in Bryant Park.

Bloggers I know arent trying to take over the world and beat everyone else down in the process.

Most of us are honestly just trying to make it a little more cozy and a little better than we found it.



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ghostdancer


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Well, I'd do anything I could for any of you guys because I think of all of you as being a good friend of mine. smile We're a cozy little community right here and I'm happy to be a part of it. nod.gif

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undoubtebly you are all within the realm of my care. We might not see eye to eye, you might think I'm a buttweed (hopefully only sometimes) etc. But this realm of care would extend beyond this meeting platform. I have no doubt.wink

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MzHartz


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I just thought I should clarify that I copied all of that from a blog post, it's not mine. But I posted it because I agree with the sentiment entirely. And it's nice to know that we're not the only group online that feels the same way.

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confuzzed


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Wait, so we aren't strange after all? Good. I consider you guys a bunch of friends.

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I love youse guys! heart.gif

It frustrates me when those that don't have internet friends act as if it's not the same or that you're not real.

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Makes me giggle that somebody actually blogged on this. I spent years having to explain to family and friends who don't work for Sprint how I can possibly be friends with people I have only talked to on the phone or exchanged e-mail with through work, but have never met in person. To me, its just not that odd... when you are "around" people most every day, you are bound to befriend some of them.

Honestly, I tend to spend more time "talking" to you guys than I do many of the in-person people I see every day. It does not matter to me that we have never met in person. I'm happy for your happiness and sad for your hurts. If that isn't being friends, I'm not sure what is.

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MzHartz


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confuzzed wrote:

Wait, so we aren't strange after all?


Well, I wouldn't say that.  We're definitely strange.  We're just not as unusual with this particular topic. ;)

 



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