Comments on: when virtual world and real world collide http://anunslife.org/2008/08/29/virtual-real-world-collide/ Catholic Sisters and Nuns in Today's World Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:27:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mon http://anunslife.org/2008/08/29/virtual-real-world-collide/#comment-8000 Mon Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:33:12 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=654#comment-8000 I once personally saw blogmate in a cathedral but I was too shy to greet him. Man, it was cool to see virtual friends breathing the same atnosphere as you are. I once personally saw blogmate in a cathedral but I was too shy to greet him. Man, it was cool to see virtual friends breathing the same atnosphere as you are.

]]> By: Bill http://anunslife.org/2008/08/29/virtual-real-world-collide/#comment-7957 Bill Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:54:17 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=654#comment-7957 I have very much enjoy and benefited from meeting you, even if it is only through the blogging world. I haven't been around in a while and just wanted to say hi. Bill I have very much enjoy and benefited from meeting you, even if it is only through the blogging world.
I haven’t been around in a while and just wanted to say hi.
Bill

]]> By: donstuff http://anunslife.org/2008/08/29/virtual-real-world-collide/#comment-7876 donstuff Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:07:41 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=654#comment-7876 I have enjoyed meeting you, even if it is virtual (and filtered). I just started blogging a couple of months ago and think of my blogging community as my neighborhood. I had been following a blog that I enjoyed and found that the writer and I work about 20 miles apart. That seemed to confirm the neighborhood theory. However, I found that another blogger that I share comments with lives in London. Sometimes it's a small world and at other times it is huge. I have enjoyed meeting you, even if it is virtual (and filtered).
I just started blogging a couple of months ago and think of my blogging community as my neighborhood. I had been following a blog that I enjoyed and found that the writer and I work about 20 miles apart. That seemed to confirm the neighborhood theory. However, I found that another blogger that I share comments with lives in London. Sometimes it’s a small world and at other times it is huge.

]]> By: Annie http://anunslife.org/2008/08/29/virtual-real-world-collide/#comment-7868 Annie Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:33:46 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=654#comment-7868 Chuck, what an awful thing to say! Hahaha. The dynamics of meeting someone in person after only knowing them online is very interesting. I've gotten to know many people online for long periods of time, and upon meeting, I felt like I already knew them. This is after years of speaking on the phone, though - sometimes there's really very little difference and luckily with the friends I've made this has been the case, but even so you have to get used to the physical awkwardness that the cyberworld eliminates. I actually think that, for long periods of time, no matter how hard you may try to hide aspects of your personality online, they end up coming through. You can try to not be yourself, but you wind up being yourself anyway. :) But certainly physical presence can change everything, and particularly if you haven't talked to someone that long online. Chuck, what an awful thing to say! Hahaha.

The dynamics of meeting someone in person after only knowing them online is very interesting. I’ve gotten to know many people online for long periods of time, and upon meeting, I felt like I already knew them. This is after years of speaking on the phone, though – sometimes there’s really very little difference and luckily with the friends I’ve made this has been the case, but even so you have to get used to the physical awkwardness that the cyberworld eliminates. I actually think that, for long periods of time, no matter how hard you may try to hide aspects of your personality online, they end up coming through. You can try to not be yourself, but you wind up being yourself anyway. :) But certainly physical presence can change everything, and particularly if you haven’t talked to someone that long online.

]]> By: chuck http://anunslife.org/2008/08/29/virtual-real-world-collide/#comment-7865 chuck Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:22:35 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=654#comment-7865 It is a kick to meet someone whom you had formed an image of and they dont match it. Once I met a client whom I had been talking too for a few weeks. She took one shocked look at me and said, "Over the phone you sound nice, you don't look nice." I guess to her in person I look mean. It is a kick to meet someone whom you had formed an image of and they dont match it. Once I met a client whom I had been talking too for a few weeks. She took one shocked look at me and said, “Over the phone you sound nice, you don’t look nice.” I guess to her in person I look mean.

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