Wait . . . we're allowed to post?
Seriously, I keep thinking I should be more involved . . . at least so I can get past the silly limit that keeps me from having an avatar.
But it somehow seems too . . . social. People kidding, chatting each other up, interacting as if friends . . . it took me a long time to wean my real life friends from all that social stuff; don't know if I want to start it here. It seems a big bother, what with having to care, and actually read, what others are saying.
No, I guess I'll hover in the less-than 0.01 posts per day for a tad longer.
"interacting
as if friends"... There's no "as if"; while the knee-jerk reaction is to assume that online interactions aren't "real", I can confirm it to be false. Consider:
1) I've made a number of real-life friends through online forums, chatrooms and the like. People whose lives matter to me and to whom my life matters.
2) Many friends I made in "real life" live far away from me now, and those friendships are largely maintained very strongly through continued online interaction; to me, it's a completely logical extension of continuing friendships over great distances via telephone and letters.
3) I have been married for eight years to a woman who was among the first people I met when I ventured online.
Sounds pretty real to me. But hey, I'm just one guy, and I could be wrong.