"don't read to deep into a myspace profile. just because i checked a box that says i am not sure that i want kids, or i am divorced or single, doesn't mean i actually am. its that this is myspace. seriously. who devulges the absolute truth on here? do you see peoples pictures? do you not think that they took it from the best possible angle? isn't that a form of lying? your the one who bought into the whole online addiction. not me. to me it is still just another website. i am slowly finding the irony in honesty. you want to know everything but don't want me to open my mouth. when i pull skeletons from the closet you call me previously dishonest. what more do you want me to do? if i could pull open my chest cavity and reveal it to the world would it make you feel i was a better person. if i exposed my every secret to every person i encounter would it make you trust me more? i dont know how i feel about online gathering places of "friends", people sum you up by a profile, they get to know you without seeing your face. we dont have to form relationships using people skills, we just find someone with like interests and email them with no threat of rejection. people can be whoever they want to be on the computer. do you honestly think they look like that in person? do you really know any of these people? this is where life and fantasy cohabitate. reality sometimes hurt. but its called life, you cant live it behind a screen. be human, be vulnrable, be real, be hurt, be rational, be flexible, learn, grow, move on. be human once again. something i am trying to do."
-Stephen Christian
seriously. I'd much prefer to talk to someone face to face, or at least over the phone because that seems so much more real to me. I don't even know how to explain it, but the internet is kind of like an alternate universe to me. you can't tell how people are feeling through black and white words on a screen. body language is an important key in any and every relationship. you can tell when people are angry, sad, happy, any number of different emotions. but the only way you can tell any of these emotions online are through exclamation points and stupid little smiley faces. it's not real! I'd rather just sit in a room with someone for hours and get to know them by talking to them than reading what they typed and sent through the world wide web. I'd love it if the internet just died one day and we had to resort to the old-fashioned ways of communication. the telephone and snail mail. yes please.
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so i completely agree with this statement. I also would like to throw out a few of my thoughts on this matter, not to make yours any less powerful, but if the internet were to suddenly die there would, at first, be mass chaos and everyone would go crazy, and it would be amazing! second people would actually start looking at stores to buy things instead of the internet making out economic situation become less of a situation because people will be buying from department stores and from actual human beings instead of purchasing things online and having them mailed to their house, and third the post office would have more activity going through it because people would start mailing letters again and stamps would go down in price. Now wouldn't that just be completely amazing? I think that it would.
With all my respect
~A.J.~
i kid you not. i was reading this, and without reading who wrote it, i was thinking, stephen would totally write something like this.
ha. so true. i hate the internet. i want to deactivate my myspace so much. but i feel like if i do, i won't ever hear from you and olivia and talia and etc. just because it's so convenient to write to you guys on here and not have to find time to talk to you guys over the phone all the time.
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