The Importance of Friendship....

[purpion]

I'm taking a little break from my 5 part entry of the Causes and Destruction of Abuse and Bullying. I would like to discuss the importance of friendship and the benefits gained.

There are many reasons why we choose to talk to certain people. Some reasons are aesthetic such as the way a person laughs, the feeling one receives when being around the

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[x_mog]

I've lived in one house my whole life. Twenty years. Even so my only link to people outside of family comes online. *Shrug* I was homeschooled from middle school up and my friends never bothered to come by to visit and my mother never allowed me to go visit them because of the kinds of neighborhoods they lived in. But I think for me this was better because I'm a bit agoraphobic and being in the social setting of school, surrounded by so many people made me uncomfortable

[purpion]

You have brought up a very good point. Social networking such as LJ, Myspace, Facebook and other places where blogging and interaction in real time or even in asynchronous communication has opened doors for contact for those that haven't been socialized properly in a live setting

[x_mog]

Well, you've got your very own living test subject right here. ^__^ I'm who I am today after about seven years (Nearing eight) of online socializing being my main way of connecting to people.

Oddly enough, I'm most content socializing online, nearly as content socializing face to face and CANNOT under ANY circumstances socialize properly on the phone. I've been known to panic when forced to speak to someone on the phone. I've no idea why. The running joke in my family is that I was killed by an evil phone in a previous life. lol

It is facinating though. Isn't it?

[purpion]

You're the best, MOG.

I have to speak on the phone, unfortunately though I'm not very fond of it. I'm more like to social butterfly that likes to flit around and I'm more content with blogging than with chat. If I have to make a choice between chat, blogging, phone or webcasting, I would rather do blogging. This way, I can think about my response, come up with the proper word usage and then contribute to discussion without seeming rude or biased.

I'm not much of a phone person myself since I do spend a lot of time on it. Not that I like it much, but it is something that I have to do unfortunately. Most calls I get are from my agent for a gig or from the sponsor giving me another assignment these days. Most calls that I make, which are very rare, are to friends that I haven't seen in a while or to make an order for pizza. Sometimes I ask for directions if my Tom Tom can't find it.

Now that you have graciously volunteered for my study, I will certainly pick your brain a bit more when the opportunity presents itself.

[notverydevilish]

Building a little on MOG's stuff, the social networking thing can also help you to stay in touch with peopel when you DO make the move. I switched schools a bit,even if I've been living in Miami all my life. I don't consider it that harmful to switch schools and meet new people, or be "uprooted

[purpion]

Excellent point and I'm happy that you pointed out the differences. Yes, technology has aided us as a whole to seek out and understand that there are differences between being uprooted without knowledge and being uprooted with the skills and tools necessary. The study had touched only a part of this