Comments on: On The Digital Web and Friendships http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/03/20/on-the-digital-web-and-friendships/ Bursts of Clarity, Illuminated. Thu, 07 May 2009 15:48:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: FlannelDoormat http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/03/20/on-the-digital-web-and-friendships/comment-page-1/#comment-17 FlannelDoormat Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:46:09 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/03/20/on-the-digital-web-and-friendships/#comment-17 I am an email junkie, I'll admit it; I check intermittantly throughout the day (almost any day). I love being able to type my thougths, my handwriting is dismal at best, and for the most part I stopped writing letters a long time ago. I also like that I can edit my thougths so that I say precisely what I mean, rather than slipping my tongue and having to justify saying something not quite right. Not to mention the convenience of having the same functionality at home as at work and the relative anonymity of not being overheard. My girlfriends are constantly rolling their eyes at the dinosaur technologies I still use for my verbal communications; I am one of the very few that still does not have a cell phone, not even an uncorded phone, mine is plugged into the wall in my kitchen and keeps me tethered to 3 or 4 feet. Even so, the are some people I'd much rather talk to on the phone, my parents, my sister, my friends I want to make plans with. Some things I'll no longer talk about even on the phone, I'll demand that a personal rendez-vous be arranged (unless proximity is an issue), you know the inevitable conversations having to do with actual emotional feelings rather than just naughty flirtations. I am an email junkie, I’ll admit it; I check intermittantly throughout the day (almost any day). I love being able to type my thougths, my handwriting is dismal at best, and for the most part I stopped writing letters a long time ago. I also like that I can edit my thougths so that I say precisely what I mean, rather than slipping my tongue and having to justify saying something not quite right. Not to mention the convenience of having the same functionality at home as at work and the relative anonymity of not being overheard.

My girlfriends are constantly rolling their eyes at the dinosaur technologies I still use for my verbal communications; I am one of the very few that still does not have a cell phone, not even an uncorded phone, mine is plugged into the wall in my kitchen and keeps me tethered to 3 or 4 feet. Even so, the are some people I’d much rather talk to on the phone, my parents, my sister, my friends I want to make plans with.

Some things I’ll no longer talk about even on the phone, I’ll demand that a personal rendez-vous be arranged (unless proximity is an issue), you know the inevitable conversations having to do with actual emotional feelings rather than just naughty flirtations.

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