VIRTUAL INSANITY

Why is it that the well established rules of social interaction that apply in the real world are nul and void in the virtual world? How would it work if internet etiquette were to be applied to day to day life:

You'd walk into the office with a breezy, "Good morning" and the same person that you spend every day working with wouldn't even look up from their desk and acknowledge your presence...yes, okay baby sis, Mo's the exception...

You'd date someone for months, build up a relationship, make plans for the future, introduce them to your family, stop seeing anyone else, then one day they'd just disappear in a puff of smoke and you'd never hear from them again...

You'd nod and smile at someone you bumped into in the street and they'd look straight through you in stony silence as if you didn't exist...

I'm glad I don't live in a virtual world where people are holograms and weird, detached automatons play games with your mind and drag you from one emotional rollercoaster to another with breathtaking callousness. Give me a real, live, flesh and blood person any day, a person that can be held to account for their behaviour and can't hide behind the anonymity of some nefarious alta alter ego that will absorb their dark side like Dorian Gray's portrait.

I don't know what you think, but I think it's just WRONG.

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Comments

[NsD]

le violet c tendance cette année alors fonce ;))))

[l'anglaise]

@ fils indigne: Thank you for that vote of confidence sweetheart, but it's not him, I promise he hasn't done anything, it's just in general...it's me, but it'll be okay, one day it'll all come right. x

[fils indigne]

qu'attendre d'un cinquantenaire musculeux nourri aux proteïnes et aux acides aminés?
les hommes ne comprennent pas les femmes mais la réciproque est vrai !!!
te fais pas de mouron à propos de ce gars là c'est vraiment du temps de perdu, et surtout ne compense pas à cause de ce que ce con pense!!!
Tu es belle, fraîche et intelligente. Il est plus que temps que tout le monde le sache!!!
je pense très fort à toi ma petite maman que j'aime.
ben

[l'anglaise]

...something in purple it is then :-( shall I get something for you?

[Baby Sis]

Could I be right in thinking that there is an issue with muscle man here? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.... no you're right. Cyber folk are a bunch of *&%$*&*'s and are best avoided. No good can come of it! Let's face it, blokes are bad enough in real life - they can't hear, see or understand what their women are saying, even when we scream it right into their stupid, blank, idiotic looking faces, so there really is no hope when you are trying to get any sense out of someone hiding behind a keyboard. (Current bloke spends most of his time hiding behind the sofa, wishing no doubt that shutting me up was as easy as turning off the screen)- so my beautiful, lovely big sis, flush your web cam down the loo, turn your face towards the sun and smile. If that fails go out and buy something in purple.(obviously apply factor 50 first!)
PS It's "alter" ego - not alta ego. Being an almost graduate, I know that!
xxxx