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raljamcar:
mine threw mine too me as a paper airplane while i chucked apples at him.

Don:
My certificate was conditioned upon an anger management course.

Shecky:

--- Quote from: ejdalise on August 24, 2012, 05:34:07 PM ---Wait . . . we're allowed to post?

Seriously, I keep thinking I should be more involved . . . at least so I can get past the silly limit that keeps me from having an avatar.

But it somehow seems too . . . social.  People kidding, chatting each other up, interacting as if friends . . . it took me a long time to wean my real life friends from all that social stuff; don't know if I want to start it here.  It seems a big bother, what with having to care, and actually read, what others are saying. 

No, I guess I'll hover in the less-than 0.01 posts per day for a tad longer.

--- End quote ---

"interacting as if friends"... There's no "as if"; while the knee-jerk reaction is to assume that online interactions aren't "real", I can confirm it to be false. Consider:

1) I've made a number of real-life friends through online forums, chatrooms and the like. People whose lives matter to me and to whom my life matters.
2) Many friends I made in "real life" live far away from me now, and those friendships are largely maintained very strongly through continued online interaction; to me, it's a completely logical extension of continuing friendships over great distances via telephone and letters.
3) I have been married for eight years to a woman who was among the first people I met when I ventured online.

Sounds pretty real to me. But hey, I'm just one guy, and I could be wrong.

Don:
Lately, I get more human interaction here than I do in real life.

It's called 'The Bar" for a reason.  It's like a little clubhouse where you can hang out, be silly, and have an interesting conversation with other human beings.  And unlike a real bar/clubhouse, you don't have to make a special trip.  You can just pop in and out at will..  for 5 minutes or 2 hours, multiple times a day.

And I have to agree with the Sheckster.  I've become personally interested in the well-being of many of my fellow forumites. 

cenwolfgirl:
Shecky wrong?  :o no sorry this is a un comprehensible (okay how the  can i spell comprehensible?)  the world would end if that ever happened
;D


--- Quote ---On average, I get more human interaction here than I do in real life.

--- End quote ---
there is no on average about it :)

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