Recently, I found myself thinking about my personal history on the Internet, particularly as regards my various groups of online friends
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These days I mostly use the internet to interact with people I know "IN REAL LIFE" -- kind of a drag. I would love another online group like our old channel to always be able to count on for text-company! But I feel like I'm too... old (?!?!?!), or something, to join a new one. Old? 22? I don't know!
I really do miss the online community. I have a lot of friends who never were part of one that consider having "internet friends" something to be embarrassed about, as if it's a second-tier social refuge for people who can't function socially in the real world. ...Maybe there's a hint of that in there... But I think there's more to it! It's so easy to find like-minded individuals in large concentrations out in the wild 'nets and so easy to keep up with all of them...
Anyway, I'm glad I still am in contact with a few internets friends from the old days, even if not as often as I would like! And deep down I secretly yearn to get back into internet socialization. WISTFUL SIGH...
But thanks for this post. It made me reflect! And, now that I think about it, the number of internets friends that affected me over the years is kind of surprising.
Man come on, meeting people online is no longer weird because it is the FUTURE.
Also I know multiple people who met on line and got like, married and shit. That means it is no longer a big deal to meet people on the internet.
(Additionally the older you get the cooler it is to have internet friends. Just sayin').
I was also just thinking about how I have spent a lot of time online and met a fair amount of people that way, which is pretty weird. WHY IS THIS SUBJECT ON EVERYONE'S MINDS?
I don't know that it's feeling too old, so much as... I'm kind of at a different place in my life, I guess? That sounds kind of cheesy, I suppose, but I kind of feel like I'm sort of settling down, and that maybe is what makes me feel a little bit too old for it too, I guess? I dunno. I mean, in high school, I stayed up all night regularly and the same in college, but now it's just... I dunno.
Also I have far less patience when it comes to putting up with other people's bullshit now.
I really do miss the online community. I have a lot of friends who never were part of one that consider having "internet friends" something to be embarrassed about, as if it's a second-tier social refuge for people who can't function socially in the real world. ...Maybe there's a hint of that in there... But I think there's more to it! It's so easy to find like-minded individuals in large concentrations out in the wild 'nets and so easy to keep up with all of them...
Anyway, I'm glad I still am in contact with a few internets friends from the old days, even if not as often as I would like! And deep down I secretly yearn to get back into internet socialization. WISTFUL SIGH...
But thanks for this post. It made me reflect! And, now that I think about it, the number of internets friends that affected me over the years is kind of surprising.
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Also I know multiple people who met on line and got like, married and shit. That means it is no longer a big deal to meet people on the internet.
(Additionally the older you get the cooler it is to have internet friends. Just sayin').
I was also just thinking about how I have spent a lot of time online and met a fair amount of people that way, which is pretty weird. WHY IS THIS SUBJECT ON EVERYONE'S MINDS?
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Also I have far less patience when it comes to putting up with other people's bullshit now.
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