I know from personnal experience how behaviour changes when communicators are hidden behind their screens.
Everything seems easier, there's less diffidence, it becomes possible to unveil parts of yourself that would normally trigger feelings of apprehension, lack of comfort, awkwardness...
I even experienced this with my own brother - that was strange.
All our screens (netbooks, tablets, PC's, smartphones, even the classic mobile phones and their small sized screens) allow us to communicate via text, audio and/or video, but with an added frontier - the ilusion of proximity is impossible, there's no heat, no physical contact, no smell, what one can see is controled by the users.
What does all this say about us?
How come are there people thriving in this fashion?
Are they any different for that in the real (as opposed to virtual) world?
Am I?
Some of the people I care for right now are people I met this way - I felt trapped in the real world, couldn't reach others, new people, new stories, new knowledge to share.
So, maybe I'm asking to be read, and I write all this as a testimony to myself or maybe I'm just blabering some incoherent nonsense that will never be read - "god" knows there's no structure and no guideline to what I write, most of the times...
C you around
virtual vs real ... been a long time I've considered the virtual world as part of my reality.
RépondreSupprimerWhy contact is easier, why do we talk more freely? some will say we hide behind a screen, so will say there's no more physical barrier, differences and we can go straight to the point... "talking"
I have stopped asking myself questions about it, i only know the virtual world is a very positive reality to me : )
As for a blog... I never check stats, never looked for an audience, yet I do love when it brings new talks, or suddenly gives an opportunity to * meet * new people who have something to say : )
We share the same point of view - again.
RépondreSupprimerScreen, the ultimate anonymiser, facilitator of real communication without bias. Maybe that's it!
Most of the time I don't ask myself questions about this dichotomy either, but i did this afternoon, so I posted it - I guess that is the point of a blog.
Your first sentence sums it up for me though : "virtual world as part of my reality"
...and it should have gone straight to the tittle of this post :)