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Social Networking vs. REAL Socializing
For the sake of this thread, at least, it should be recognized here that the two are very different. Our current society for the sake of ease and instant gratification desires, among others, has allowed the former to supplant the later. Granted, the ability of instantaneous communication compared to snail mail and the older Bell countertop, immobile, analog (non-digital, non-touch view screen, non-thinking, non-app, non-camera, etc) telephone does have its satisfactions and uses, but for socializing it must be recognized that there is no comparison to real socializing, face-to-face, eye-to-eye, body-to-body talking. There are a lot of clues and indicators which escape notice and inclusion with what one is trying to say in social networking. People are very frequently being misunderstood online in what they are trying to say. Just look at this singular thread and see how many times it has occurred. In such an online "chat" environment the depth of intimacy (if really any at all) and understanding is regulated by the absence of these indicators such as body language and eye contact and voice intonation and inflection. Sadly, I would expect even some here today possibly not even having experienced true intimacy in relationships and hence not aware of what they are missing as many times I have actually witnessed husband and wife texting to each other in the same room or at the same table and many people in a real life gathering of souls forsaking the gathering and having their cell thing in their face. Many are already in the habit of forsaking gathering together RIGHT IN THE MIDST of such.
For the sake of this thread, at least, it should be recognized here that the two are very different. Our current society for the sake of ease and instant gratification desires, among others, has allowed the former to supplant the later. Granted, the ability of instantaneous communication compared to snail mail and the older Bell countertop, immobile, analog (non-digital, non-touch view screen, non-thinking, non-app, non-camera, etc) telephone does have its satisfactions and uses, but for socializing it must be recognized that there is no comparison to real socializing, face-to-face, eye-to-eye, body-to-body talking. There are a lot of clues and indicators which escape notice and inclusion with what one is trying to say in social networking. People are very frequently being misunderstood online in what they are trying to say. Just look at this singular thread and see how many times it has occurred. In such an online "chat" environment the depth of intimacy (if really any at all) and understanding is regulated by the absence of these indicators such as body language and eye contact and voice intonation and inflection. Sadly, I would expect even some here today possibly not even having experienced true intimacy in relationships and hence not aware of what they are missing as many times I have actually witnessed husband and wife texting to each other in the same room or at the same table and many people in a real life gathering of souls forsaking the gathering and having their cell thing in their face. Many are already in the habit of forsaking gathering together RIGHT IN THE MIDST of such.
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