Comments on: Reminder to Foster “Offline” Friendships

By: Balance ~ Trade Show Guru

Balance ~ Trade Show Guru — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:01:26 +0000

[...] up and backup your blog and then write a new post. It’s about knowing whether you’re spending too much time online and not enough time with the real flesh-and-blood people in your [...]

By: rudyamid

rudyamid — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:19:12 +0000

Hey Steve,

We get so much busier online these days, alright. There are just so much information to be absorbed, I’m always tempted to just veg out in front of the computer and read all day. Amazing, I use to hate reading textbooks when I was in school. Now I’m just sponging them up. Connecting with people, like blogging or Twittering, have a lot to do with it.

By: Trade Show Guru

Trade Show Guru — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:16:38 +0000

Hey Rudy, With a new blog plus reading other blogs and getting to know other bloggers, plus trying to learn about blogging, plus keeping up with the news, politics, and email, I can understand how one can get sucked into spending way too much time on line. I think your post is very important, and the last paragraph is really the most critical to remember. I just try to live by Family First, and everything else in moderation. And I guess I'd add always make time for your real friends. ~ Steve, aka the trade show guru Trade Show Guru´s last blog post..Trade Show Secrets

By: Periapex

Periapex — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:45:12 +0000

Yeah, there are no uncomfortable silences while online. There are anxious silences such as in long-distance relationships over IM. I think the online lure has something to do with a sense of intimacy. Strangers are allowed deeper into one another's lives because they are not physically present. Twitter presents others with our innermost thoughts -- thoughts that we might not otherwise say out loud in physical conversation. At heart, we are all voyeurs. Periapex´s last blog post..Sound of Music in Toronto.

By: rudyamid

rudyamid — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:11:51 +0000

You’re absolutely correct with your observation. Having the power of Google gives us the edge in a conversation. Perhaps it’s the allure of that “smartness” draws us closer to our online friends.

That reminds me, another reason for dreading conversation in person: Moments of silence. I can imagine the scenes from the The Office tv show.

By: Periapex

Periapex — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:39:31 +0000

Most people appear wittier and more intelligent while online. I think that’s because we can google more info on something before we actually “say” it online. We also have more time to compose thoughts.

Real-life interaction is a completely different game fraught with the indirect communication of body language, verbal inflection, possibly pheromones, and cultural habits.

It’s much easier to be cool online than in person.