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imomus

Tell me about couples and surfing!

May 30, 2006 11:03

I'm about to write my next Wired column. I've decided it's going to be about the effect of information addiction on the life of couples. And I'd like your help, because I don't want it just to be me going on about me. But naturally it starts with me, what I've observed in my own life. Here's a photo of me and my then-girlfriend (she's now happily ( Read more... )

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geeveecatullus May 30 2006, 09:12:25 UTC

I am single so I cannot speak to myself, but it amuses me so much when couples I know sometimes communicate with each other via instant messaging because they are too lazy to walk to their respective rooms.

geeveecatullus May 30 2006, 09:12:47 UTC

*speak for myself of course.
I speak *to* myself quite a lot.

imomus May 30 2006, 09:14:35 UTC

Hisae and I often send each other e mails when we're in the same room! Usually with URLs...

geeveecatullus May 30 2006, 09:16:29 UTC

hahaha.
would be even funnier if people sitting opposite each other each had a webcam and chatted that way.

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rhodri May 30 2006, 09:14:14 UTC

Just before I started reading this entry, I remarked to Jenny that it was fairly unusual for us to be sitting up in bed, side by side, laptops on our respective knees. She was making the mistake of looking up the symptoms of her sore throat on line (it could be syphilis, apparently) and I was trying to get Spectrasonics Trilogy working for a rehearsal this afternoon.

Now I've read this above, I feel slightly better about what seemed distinctly antisocial 10 minutes ago. Of course, if we were both reading the Sunday papers, that would be fine, although it would be a bit weird, because it's Tuesday.

imomus May 30 2006, 09:19:28 UTC

Ha, I'm getting into your habit of asking my readers for help with my tech-related articles, Rhodri! Does that make us an "information couple", I wonder? Pass the sugar, sugar!

rhodri May 30 2006, 09:39:34 UTC

I don't so much ask for help as plead for mercy.

We're out of sugar, here's some Canderel Spoonful.

nato_dakke May 30 2006, 09:35:51 UTC

congratulations on what is by far your most interesting subject yet for a piece at wired.

Wish I could contribute. My girlfriend and I don't get but a couple nights together a week, so I just hold off. We both profess to using the internet all evening when there's nothing to do, but we never chat or email one another. Our relationship is pretty well cordoned off into the analog.

amiame May 30 2006, 09:36:30 UTC

My boyfriend and I spend a great deal of time online. I love new information, new sites, new images - everything is so easily accessible, everything moves at such speed. I like keeping in touch with my friends through reading their Livejournals or other blogs, and through MSN, as I don't live near the university I go to, and it's a hell of a lot easier than phone calls. I also access a lot of online texts for my course (through JSTOR, or Project Gutenburg, or suchlike place) so I don't have to go and buy loads of books. I love being able to Google a new band I've heard of, and find out loads about them, instantly, or type in some strange term, and have Wikipedia explain it for me. On a geekier note, I tend to spend time on online forums as I'm in the ABJD hobby (asian ball-joint dolls/dollfies), which is quite obscure in the UK, so the only way I CAN communicate with other people through the hobby is the internet. I love the internet 'language' that started out on bulletin boards, and how quickly it mutates. I love buying random crap ( ... )

xishimarux May 30 2006, 09:51:35 UTC

When I'm by myself (Hello my name is Alex :) I use the internet for just about everything. Social contacts to musical research comes from the internet. My girlfriend Christina likes to watch TV and uses the internet for research but it's not as important as Laguna Beach or whatever else is on TV. Which is fine by me. Yin and Yang. When we surf together she's sitting on my leg or in my lap hanging out. We look up movies or look up the weather at the beach and get out the house usually. Sometimes it's used for ... erotic purposes and we leave to the bedroom. lol. When we use it together its a tool to further our relationship. When she goes to China to visit her family I'll get emails and we'll Skype together now that there's a version for OS X. Someday I want to travel with her so we look up travel spots and good places to go. My computer is also my studio for music so I'll test some tracks out on her in Ableton or show her the latest trick I learned. I know she's not really that interested but it's nice she'll hang with me while I ( ... )