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Why is there still a stigma tied to the internet

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Willco said:
Seriously, sleeping in beds with e-strangers? C'mon, cloudwalking. What would Jesus do?
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They weren't exactly strangers :lol One of them was my now-boyfriend, one was one of my best Internet pals, and the other one was a Canadian.
 
cloudwalking said:
They weren't exactly strangers :lol One of them was my now-boyfriend, one was one of my best Internet pals, and the other one was a Canadian.
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You slept with a Canadian?! I'm disappointed in you.
 
cloudwalking said:
They weren't exactly strangers :lol One of them was my now-boyfriend, one was one of my best Internet pals, and the other one was a Canadian.
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That is absolutely filthy, on both accounts. Romantic entanglements via the Internet, in the same bed? And a Canadian? Wow. I'm telling your mom!

CrystalGemini said:
You slept with a Canadian?! I'm disappointed in you.
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High five!
 
cloudwalking said:
They weren't exactly strangers :lol One of them was my now-boyfriend, one was one of my best Internet pals, and the other one was a Canadian.
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Yeah, I dunno about sleeping with a Canadian.

Yeesh.

We never had this conversation. Ever. I feel dirty.
 
cloudwalking said:
Hey... I'm Canadian :(
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cloudwalking said:
My perception of people on the internet (and my family's) has changed drastically over the years.

I met my first internet friend when I was 12, and my parents were very concerned. He claimed to be my age, was interested in the same things I was, was a really nice guy, and just all-around seemed like a good guy to talk to. My parents thought differently, but never cut me off from him. They'd just say things like "No one is ever who they claim to be on the Internet" "Just you wait. You'll find out soon that he's really a 40 year old man."

My thoughts were like, what reason has he given me so far not to trust him? Just the fact that he's on the Internet? I thought that was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard.

Well, now I have to laugh about it, because we're still best friends to this day (he's 19 now). Over all those years we've talked over the internet, the phone, sent letters to each other, etc. We've helped each other work through tough things like when I was having bad family problems and when he came out. And crazily enough, now I live 3 hours away from him and we talk about getting together on the weekends. It's awesome. Oh, and my parents love him now.

I also met my boyfriend on the Internet. The first time I ever met him face-to-face, I flew halfway across the world to visit him for a week. By myself. I was 17.

We've known each other for over 2 years now, and lived together for 9 months.

I went to E3 with 3 of my internet friends. All guys, we shared a hotel room.

Meeting people from the Internet no longer scares me in the least. I've done it so much now (and had people recognize me from the Internet, too), and had such fun with it that I really enjoy it now.
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:lol
 
There's only a few internet friends I have, and they're all related to the Nformant, which I found out about, strangely enough, through the Nintendo BBS years ago.

Jon Metts, who used to run the Nformant
Evan Burchfield, who used to work there with me

Both now work at PGC, while I hold the rights to the Nformant name.
 
CrystalGemini said:
I don't remember what the thread was about. :lol
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It's about why Cloudwalking must forever wear a shameblanket to hide the guilt of sleeping with a Canadian. Too bad she has to sleep with one every night (herself!). Shameblanket for life!

PhoenixDark, I already gave you the hook up RIGHT HERE IN THIS THREAD! Hop to it.

LA whores are cleaner than Candians. Fact.
 
hXc_thugg said:
Sometimes people will come up to me and tell me they've seen me on myspace. I always just tell them that's a weird thing to say and then stop talking.
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I've done it so much now (and had people recognize me from the Internet, too)
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Yeah this stuff weirds me out. When I hear "Hey I know you from (website)! " I sort of panic and freeze. Sometimes, I think I get weird looks from people who recognize me from somwhere, often I fear it's my HON and they're thinking it's that netsluts guy...

Sometimes I get mistaken for other internet people and I have to correct them, that no I'm not THAT guy, I'm a totally different internet male. =(

A week ago, I was walking downtown and passed a friend who was up from LA to play a show. I saw him playing outside an Art Gallery, waved and he proceeded to work my MySpace name into the song.

It just freaks me out.


ps: cloudwalking, wow 3 guys and not one of them was me? I'm dissapointed.
 
Sometimes, when I'm outside of etiolate's window because I tracked his MySpace account's IP to a physical street address, I think it's kind of weird. But then I see him dance to bad pop songs in his underwear (tighty whities) and the morbid curiousity turns into pity.

True story.
 
Willco said:
Sometimes, when I'm outside of etiolate's window because I tracked his MySpace account's IP to a physical street address, I think it's kind of weird. But then I see him dance to bad pop songs in his underwear (tighty whities) and the morbid curiousity turns into pity.

True story.
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: O
 
Willco said:
Sometimes, when I'm outside of etiolate's window because I tracked his MySpace account's IP to a physical street address, I think it's kind of weird. But then I see him dance to bad pop songs in his underwear (tighty whities) and the morbid curiousity turns into pity.

True story.
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I never thanked you for leaving that fiver by the window.
 
because it gives people with otherwise no social development some semblance of self worth, which is bad, because they should be mocked and ridiculed like god designed them to be.



:lol


just kidding


maybe
 
Iamthegamer said:
I think it's jsut a thing that's generally frowned upon from our parents generation. They saw the internet as something unusual, and you can't help but keep that in the back of your mind. I think everything will be set straight when the next generation of kids roll around, and it will be much more accepted then.
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Absolutely.

For elderly folks, the Internet sometimes almost looks like an alien technology. There's a lot of unknown, and it eliminates physical frontiers. It changes the way communications are done, and the way that information is transmitted. No wonder that it scares a lot of people off.

To make an analogy, twenty years ago gaming was also seen as frowned upon. Although our hobby still has a very bad reputation among casuals, many young budding gamers in the eighties are now adults who make a lot of money and keep playing with consoles. Thus, gaming is viewed more seriously in the general populace. Its reputation has bettered. So will the Internet's.

Nowadays kids are growing with a keyboard and a mouse in their hands. They make new Internet friends at a very young age. Prejudices will slowly vanish as years go by and as the Internet keeps occupying an increasingly larger part of our everyday lives.
 
ForzaItalia said:
Here's why:



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Girl on the far right...


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On the left....


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Enough said....
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I don't understand. This doesn't explain anything to me. Unless my topic was "Anyone stalking some plump women?"
 
etiolate said:
I don't understand. This doesn't explain anything to me. Unless my topic was "Anyone stalking some plump women?"
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Those were all women that told me they were "hot" and with an "average" build until I saw the pics...hence the stigma :lol
 
Looks... so meaningless. I can't wait to see how the web evolves, how it subsumes everything, then it'll be that interpersonal relations will truly shine, as the abstract becomes the concrete. As we open a doorway to a whole new world, yet so similar, as most if not all interactions are rooted in the memetic world. As is, was, and will be, the ideal world, the world of idea, a world of pure information.
 
Okay, so the stigma is just a physical nature? The internet makes it easier to lie about physical aspects?

As opposed to meeting people in real life that can lie about other things? Like the girl you meet in real life that doesn't tell you she was once a child molester?
 
Fresh Prince said:
I would say lack of trust rather than physicality.

You said lie same thing.
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Okay.

I wonder if the paranoid do better online because they are use to not trusting anyone.



As for the elderly or older generations and their view of the internew... in my experience, I find they are more friendly to the internet and computers once they find they can make a buck off of it.
 
cloudwalking said:
I went to E3 with 3 of my internet friends. All guys, we shared a hotel room.
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:O

cloudwalking said:
I went to E3 with 3 of my internet friends. All guys, we shared a hotel room.
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:O

cloudwalking said:
I went to E3 with 3 of my internet friends. All guys, we shared a hotel room.
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:O

cloudwalking said:
I went to E3 with 3 of my internet friends. All guys, we shared a hotel room.
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;)
 
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