Okay so I turned to the Cyber Space world November, last year, Face-book, Myspace, WH ( My favourite) RSVP, can i say that?

The interaction of the Cyber world has been fascinating to say the least, people that are w......k........rs, people that are real and become Cyber friends, people that I have met and become friends with, a couple I have contenplated on ( I am single) 1, that I met for intentions of a new relationship ( too far away) way lots of laughing at the well I don't know you in reality so i can say or do anything.. Addiction? also a factor, which site do i turn to, to see what's happening, great email, send back reply, funny emails coming my way, send, click...

Does it ever stop? I mean i closed two accounts because frankly enough is enough and have just left the ones that I converse and enjoy and WH cause me addicted, oh no I am a spam fighter so I have to.

But, do you find it fascinating meeting these people, sharing some form of their lives, what ever they feel comfortable sharing?

Do you find it a release?

Funny?

Made real friends? Or, fed appetites? Of any form?


CW

The internet is funny. Get to learn about people from all over the world, generally reassuring me that the English are smarter than Americans. You get to meet loads of absolute chaff that the world could do better without, and hava a little fun at their expense to cure some boredom.

You get a unique window into peoples lives, as people are generally far more honest when everything is anonymous. It is a good medium for discussion, as people can (in forums) take time to consider their views, and make a good argument, which some might not be able to do in the pressure of a realtime discussion

I've met a few people I've met on the internet, one of them was kind enough to put me up in his place in Lisbon for a while when I was on holiday.

I seem to revolve through forums, and wind up just checking them quite rarely, looking for posts of certain members as it's difficult to care about loads of newbies stinking up the place.

Dear me... Anon... You have a way with words me finks.

Glad also that I live in Australia.

CW

Personally I feel that the net is taken for granted. So many people use it for the wrong things. And many do use it for the right.
Take a dating site for example: There are alot of people who are looking for a relationship, a real one. Then you get these people who just use it as a tool to get laid and add people to their count, (so to speak). And then that ruins it for the real purpose and real seekers.
As for another thing: I was on a different site and just their for the forums to read, enjoy, possibly give my thoughts/advice etc. And little beknown I made some great friends, (Chandler, Tropical, Lakerat and more), and now a few from here. Would I ever meet some of these people, I may if the op. comes around, chances are slim to none to be honest. Distance does play a huge factor for meeting.
People can be anything they want to be and none will ever know for sure. They can be the sweetest person, best person you talk to, and whatnot. Then if you do meet them they be the total opposite and be the meanest person you will ever know. These are the risks and chances we all take.
Some people use the net to so -call get away from the everyday . Some get trapped and addicted as chandler stated. Some get to have a chance to understand more of how the normal people think and that they arent the only people who have certain problems/issues and it is ok.
The net is weird. It can fun, happy, and awhole lot more. It can be brutal, mean and non-forgiving.
I was online a few years ago and actually did get addicted and join chat rooms. I had made many friends and alot I still keep in contact to this day. We never met but the friendship was great online and we all had fun. And a few times jerks would come in and try to start trouble, thinking they were bad-a$$es because they would do things like try to overtake your computer, start fights and stuff like that. So when that happened it changed things in my mind and I had to get back to the real world.
The net can bring people together and also do the opposite.
It is all how one wants it to be.

I think that, that is a very good observation... It's a bit of trial and error, can recall a few I've blocked, lol.

And, who would know what you tap into and where it can take you such as that particular site you mention, one click on Humor and here we all are, lol, did I expect that? Or know that it even existed? Is that why I joined that site to start with? No...

Amazing really, although I don't go there any more, lol. No point.

Having friends from all over the World, again, who would have thought that was possible? It is for the younger generation they know all about it, but the older generation probably thought that it was a young thing as apposed to a reality.

I have a Canadian (shhh ) you lot, coming over here to stay with me for a year, 24 years of age a real sweetie and funny girl... Just out of a question from her Dad, pertaining to Adelaide and here we are planning her rooms, lol.

I have friends that I KNOW if I met and I hope one day I do, with some of them, that I would hug on first site and know them as If I have known them for ever in the real world, as it is the real world, they are people, we are people, no reason to lie or be someone else.

It is amazing, they are amazing...

But, I think the key is longevity.

In other words, those that you "talk to" every now and then, can prove to be very different people, or those you chat to for a couple of weeks, and then meet, it's all a facade.... fake... easier to talk on a computer.

But longevity is different, over time, you really do realise that they are a "friend" there is a connection and it's on-going...

There, underlines a vast new world in Cyber Space, that being that you connect with some "great" people that you truly can/would call your friends.

Another friend which is definately evil, absolutely wrong for me is called Ciggy and he is so bad that he ran away and I have to go for 10 minutes to find 25 of him, in a packet form, lol, can you all spam for me and the other Mods here please for a short time?

haha, pending on when you read this off course.

CW

It's human nature to take things for granted. We have done it with every other human invention from electricity to antibiotics to a tin of tuna fish. If our minds didn't adjust to the awesomeness of things you'd constantly be amazed and never get anything done. The alarm clock rings, and by the time you've paid sufficient homage to the marvel of your alarm, the radio it plays, the bed you sleep in, the house you live in, the city, country and world it's time to go back to sleep.

Also, you say about people using a dating site for the wrong reasons, but that is exactly what happens in real life. Many men will blag their way into a ladies knickers with promises of a loving relationship, when they are destined to be a notch on the bedpost and nothing more. It isn't the internet at fault, it is man. The internet is just a mirror of us all, flaws and strengths, pure motives and bad... a digital representation of our nature (which is why porn is about 70% of the internet).

It's funny though Anon, because reading what you just wrote, I noted that I am way more aware of things surrounding me, and I now "marvel" over the most natural things that I have simply taken for granted, all because the "Internet World" has in-deed been an awakening for me, of my life, whom I am and what I can do with it, the whole world in my eyes is totally different than before I commenced on this particular journey.. Cyber.

Dating sites (referring to JWB's response) I think that particular site in question is questionable. Meaning, threads are made, posts are followed and all based on how the "Women felt", the comments made to them regarding their photo, or words and there was a lot of it. Kind of made I think the Men question being on it and a lot changed their intentions from dating/long term, to "friends" writing only here for the Forums, and honestly, so did I, it was a nightmare haha...

Forums on Dating sites? Can be good, but I feel that whilst there are an abundance of choices, topics, games, IM's, Chat, it's a wicked little place, lol.

But, yes, going back to what you are saying absolutely...

My main responses if any, were exactly that... People need to view dating as "many" ways in which to seek and find... For some reason their eyes are closed and they see a Dating Site as "the only" method of finding and then get disappointed...

CW