Wednesday, November 19, 2008
cyber relationships
In today's society, we have now been more crossed over to cyber relationships, friendships, connections, and networking. Modern day has increased the mode of maintaining relationships or establishing new ones. I personally have not been involved in cyber relationships exclusively only because it makes it extremely difficult to really get the know the person. In addition, I enjoy interacting with individuals one on one and getting to know their daily habits, their mannerisms, etc. This allows me to fully feel involved with this person and create a more personal relationship. I also have realized that maintaining relationships has become a lot more difficult in today's society. In addition, I have had a difficult time finding relationships that are genuine and that have good motivations for every action that is made. I often encounter relationships where the person is not there to be a good hearted person. I found that they were only thinking of themselves and not looking out for my personal emotions like a real friend would. It was a difficult situation to encounter and in fact, it has happened more than once, however, those situations made me a stronger person and allowed me to appreciate those that are there for me, and for future cases, I can watch out and look out for what people have to offer me personally. If this can occur in one on one relationships, then cyber relationships might not give a person the genuine partnership they would ideally want.
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I agree that it is very hard to create and maintain a cyber relationship. I am a person who needs some real life, real world connection with someone to be able to consider the relationship to be in the realm of friendship. Those people that I do solely talk to online (be it in a blogging or gaming atmosphere) I have regulated to aquaintence status because I feel I could never really "know" the person. It has become much harder to maintain face to face relationships as well, as you noted. With life becomes more rushed and crammed with responsibility while we all have less and less time for socializing, personal friendships often take a hit.
Hi LicizPieciz! Do you feel that cyber relationships can have their place? Back in the early 90's, chat rooms became really big. People were repetitively chatting with the same people about politics, computers, crafting, photography, and whatever else you can think of. Do you think there is value to these types of relationships? Do you have to reveal information about yourself to the other person, or can you take the relationship for what it's worth and keep it at a different level than f2f relationships? Can the different types of relationships operate at different levels and still be considered a 'relationship' of sorts?
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