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Hi, Hair, All. I was just sort of thinking about the fears some of us have expressed about meeting folks on the internet. Since it's so much easier to pretend to be what you are not, when no one really knows who we are.

But I thought of an interesting plus to the anonimity, another side of the same coin, but positive. On the net, we are unable to use facial expressions, body language, even dress or physical appearance, all of the usual things that humans use as part of their normal means of communication. But this requires us, I think to be more eloquent with the written word than we might normally be. We probably are expressing thoughts and opening our hearts in ways that might take a much longer time in RL. I personally feel like I am getting to know everyone here in very real ways, perhaps in much the same way that you get to know a character in a novel, that is, through the written word. I feel that, because we must rely on the written word here, in many ways we are getting to see things in each other that we might not otherwise. I for one, am having a great time.

I tend to sometimes be oblivious of whatever is going on, so forgive me if I am again stating the obvious. But what do you think?

Well, I am having a wonderful time (really!) happily chattering to myself. Not sure why I'm in such a happy mood, but I am.

I was just sort of thinking about the fears some of us have expressed about meeting folks on the internet. Since it's so much easier to pretend to be what you are not, when no one really knows who we are.

Well...no one really knows who we are in RL either I would expect.

Maybe it's just a wimmin thing but the thought of those internet meetings gone major bad is always out there. Still, there is safety in numbers. We haven't had Jen's input yet. I wonder what her parents would say about it!