Comments on: First impressions- a commentary http://merewords.net/2008/04/11/first-impressions-a-commentary/ What's left is what's right Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:27:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Corinne ;) http://merewords.net/2008/04/11/first-impressions-a-commentary/#comment-46 Corinne ;) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:38:50 +0000 http://merewords.net/2008/04/11/first-impressions-a-commentary/#comment-46 I know facebook and the like has totally changed the way I interact with friends, but I kind of like it to some extent. (120-message threads, etc) Yet, at the same time, people our age and older actually remember a time before everyone had internet access 24/7. I'm kind of curious about how younger generations who have never been without internet will interact with each other. Hey...you haven't watched the next disk without me have you? I know facebook and the like has totally changed the way I interact with friends, but I kind of like it to some extent. (120-message threads, etc)
Yet, at the same time, people our age and older actually remember a time before everyone had internet access 24/7. I’m kind of curious about how younger generations who have never been without internet will interact with each other.

Hey…you haven’t watched the next disk without me have you?

]]> By: Jason http://merewords.net/2008/04/11/first-impressions-a-commentary/#comment-45 Jason Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:06:55 +0000 http://merewords.net/2008/04/11/first-impressions-a-commentary/#comment-45 "Imagine a world filled with people who actually conversed about things and talked through their disagreements. Imagine not feeling like you already know a person before you’ve actually talked to them. Imagine not having to tiptoe around subjects because you already “know” it could be awkward to talk about because *gasp* you have differing opinions. Imagine that, then forget it. Because, until we can bring ourselves to be friends in real life before we’re friends online, it’s not going to happen." That's about right. There are entirely too many people who only want to hear the sound of their own voice and their own opinions echoed back to them. (Like the ones that listen to a particular talk radio program.) People who do not even have the basic integrity or decency to say hello to someone who doesn't march in lock step with their extremists agendas (and that's on either side of the spectrum.) Until we can all sit down and talk about things we'll never advance this country. “Imagine a world filled with people who actually conversed about things and talked through their disagreements. Imagine not feeling like you already know a person before you’ve actually talked to them. Imagine not having to tiptoe around subjects because you already “know” it could be awkward to talk about because *gasp* you have differing opinions.

Imagine that, then forget it. Because, until we can bring ourselves to be friends in real life before we’re friends online, it’s not going to happen.”

That’s about right. There are entirely too many people who only want to hear the sound of their own voice and their own opinions echoed back to them. (Like the ones that listen to a particular talk radio program.) People who do not even have the basic integrity or decency to say hello to someone who doesn’t march in lock step with their extremists agendas (and that’s on either side of the spectrum.)

Until we can all sit down and talk about things we’ll never advance this country.

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