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How important is the internet (and the people you meet on it) to you?
I'm thinking for a moment here. We're all a part of an online community. Some of us have made contact with our fellow members in ways that defy the very concept of human relathionships of 20 years ago. We've become friends, lovers, business partners and confidents... many times without ever meeting eachother. Obviously, some people take the internet more seriously than others.
Being an internet junkie since 1991, I've found my niche and have learned what to trust and what to stay away from. Through this knowledge, I have been able to make good decisions on who to first call my friends, then to invest any amount of emotional weight into them. I haven't met half the people in real life who I consider to be a real friend. Does the fact that I haven't met them face to face make them any less of a valid friend? People have fallen in love over the internet. Is their love invalid because they have never met?
My question to you is.. how seriously do you take the internet and it's inhabitants? Are we all just faceless automatons typing stuff into our computers just so you can read it? Are we all individuals, each using the internet for our own purposes? Are we all kids at heart, engaging this huge engine of imagination for nothing more than mental stimulation? Are we all romantics, investing in the world wide web as the next frontier in humanity's evolution? Tell me.
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