I say this every now and then; but Im saying it again today. I am SOOOO Over chat... and chat ppl and chat arguments and the inability of some ppl to actually relate to people on the internet in a HUMANE manner. This might be the internet (which is merely just another means of communication like phone, letters, face to face conversations, etc) but the people here... whether they act fake or act real... are real people. And real people deserve a certain amount of respect until they have proven themselves unworthy. Respect for their opinions and thoughts whether it jives with your own or not. Respect for them taking the time to communicate with you here when there are hundreds of other things they could be doing. Respect for the fact that they are trying to get to know you through a mechanism that isnt the easiest to work through or interpret through.
Conversations here, can be as light hearted and comical as you want them to be or they can be the means in which you communicate your thoughts and opinions and feelings and unhappiness and discontent etc. to connect with your fellow man/woman kind. It takes great effort sometimes to have the conversations that are of the more meaningful sort. When the internet bridge isnt providing the smoothness of conversation that is usually allowed within face to face interaction.... why is it so hard to just say.... lets take this offline? If it matters enough... why are people so quick to think "This is just some internet person Im talking to, Im done!" Come on... you have spent weeks/months and sometimes years talking to this so called 'internet person' to piss it all away because the communication isnt flowing the way it has in the past. Are there not a multitude of situations and conditions that could be causing this one particular friendship ending conversation to go south? Are you not once in the heat of your misunderstanding and miscommunication wondering to yourself... "why arent we getting along today? we have gotten along for weeks/months/years and then now all of a sudden, the color of the sky is the most important thing to argue about" .... and to block the person from ever speaking to you again, and deleting you from their buddy list like they dont even know your favorite color and havent spent all day at work chatting with you when you were home on your day off.
When does your chat friend lose their value as a person? And dont say they never had value.... thus they wouldnt be on your buddy list, chatting you up every other day and keeping you company online over the weeks/months/years that you have known them. They have value, they mean something... they mean more than some stupid argument over miscommunication and misunderstanding that your pride wont seem to allow you to let go of...
I have been chatting for well over 22 years now. It started with 'mudding' in college and due to the gypsy like nature of how I live my life, it has been a useful tool in meeting new people in the many areas that I travel. Without the internet I would have been a traveling lost soul, without connections or ties to any city that I went to and without the experiences that I had that were made possible by my 'internet friends'. I value people. I value every person I have met or never met from the internet because all in all, they are people. People with unique personalities and personal traits all their own. They are colorful and fun and the interactions both good and bad in some instances have added to my life lessons. I would not be the person I am without the people I have had intertwined in my life via the internet. So to be discounted, as "some chic on the internet you pass the time with" or considered as some "white noise" that adds color to the day... is somewhat disconcerting considering the level of effort I put into the interactions I have. I cant tell you how to do what it is that you are going to do here, but it seems almost necessary to mention that why you might treat me like Im just some personality you generated on Sims Online and Im easy to disconnect, delete, etc. Im definitely more than that and its a shame that your lack of depth causes you not to be able to see that.
*kttn*
