I had a thought in the wee hours of the morning that I think makes sense. That’s only a guess, mind you, but I think I’ll record it anyway.
I was thinking about online friendships, and whether they’re truly based in reality or not. How well can you really know someone who you’ve never met face to face? Never really interacted with?
I had the sudden thought that it’s a bit like putting a puzzle together – and the other person is handing you the pieces. Sometimes you come up short and sometimes you have that handful of leftover pieces that you don’t quite know what to do with. Big problem with this scenario though is that there’s no picture on the box to compare things to. You can’t know if you’ve even come close to approximating reality, because you don’t know for certain what that reality is.
Puzzling thoughts aside, I can’t help being a bit idealistic and thinking that sometimes, on lovely rare occasions, you get the picture just right.
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Who’s to say that when you meet someone face-to-face you know them any better? I have an easier time showing the “real” me through my keyboard. For some reason I tend to hide behind my real-life face.
For a long time I felt kinda weird for having online friends that I’d never met (or on some occasions, only met once). Were they really friends? Then again, they can effect my *real* moods, so perhaps it’s not a “virtual friendship” after all.
Aren’t you glad we have technology? How else would I get to read your blog? :-D