Wednesday explains how she communicates with strangers over the internet, and wonders if she should think about it differently.
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Thursday
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*sigh* youtube comments.
The most experience I've had with talking to stranger on the internet (geek alert coming up) is this forum I was very invested in, for a series of unfortunate events. I loved those books and I loved discussing and debating them with other people who loved them. We had some common ground, and we talked about things and enjoyed going back and forth about them. It was fun, but it was also very "unreal" and detached. But . . . it was fun. (This forum has since been closed after the last book came out in 2006. I was very disappointed.)
It's hard to discuss things on the internet, I think, because it is so far removed from humanity and real life. It's easy to be "rational" on the internet (despite all evidence to the contrary) but it's not as easy to be "human" with people you really don't know. And it's so easy to 'walk away" from a discussion on the internet without really giving it honest thought.
A Year Of Questions is a project begun on March 22, 2010, by seven teens who want to be better at asking questions and articulating answers. This blog exists to make it easier to discuss these questions (because a 500 character limit on YouTube comments is rather limiting). Enjoy!
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*sigh* youtube comments.
The most experience I've had with talking to stranger on the internet (geek alert coming up) is this forum I was very invested in, for a series of unfortunate events. I loved those books and I loved discussing and debating them with other people who loved them. We had some common ground, and we talked about things and enjoyed going back and forth about them. It was fun, but it was also very "unreal" and detached. But . . . it was fun. (This forum has since been closed after the last book came out in 2006. I was very disappointed.)
It's hard to discuss things on the internet, I think, because it is so far removed from humanity and real life. It's easy to be "rational" on the internet (despite all evidence to the contrary) but it's not as easy to be "human" with people you really don't know. And it's so easy to 'walk away" from a discussion on the internet without really giving it honest thought.
Is that Catey? (she is such a cool person)
Catey is a cool person, but no.
Way to shut me down.
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