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   Anonymous Coward, 12 Jun 2003 @ 2:04am

   
   

   What is reality?

   Some people think they are somehow in better touch with the real world because they "get out more". But then, there are the losers who play basketball all day. Being a computer hack gets one further up in the real world than being a basketball thug.
   
   

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   Anonymous Coward, 12 Jun 2003 @ 2:19am

   
   

   Why is the net considered not real?

   I've received death threats before during heated exchanges on the net. There are very real net-based abductions and murders out there.
   
   I haven't yet seen headlines for international murders in which chatter in country A pissed off someone from the other side of the world, so person from country B comes to kill him. The world is getting smaller all the time. Perhaps the new model of international terrorism will consist of more personal vendettas, instead of devotion to abstract causes.
   

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   thecaptain, 12 Jun 2003 @ 7:54am

   
   

   No Subject Given

   Socializing is socializing, whether on the net or in the so called "real world"...if anything, in a lot of net exchanges people open up quicker further and more honestly because they feel semi-anonymous (I'll ignore the idiots who run rampant everywhere being jerks because they think they ARE anonymous).
   
   However, that being said, there is something to be said about face2face time and human contact. I wouldn't want to go 4-5 months without so much as a handshake or hug (or more than that from my SO)...I don't think we'll get rid of that anytime soon.

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