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What are the effects of the internet on the quantity and quality of real-life interpersonal relationships?
Please answer first in terms of your own life, then give your impression of the overall social trends.
Quantity: Do you think you meet more people (in person) because of the internet, or do you think you would meet more people if you just avoided the internet? You might want to consider the balance between opposing effects. On one hand, the time you spend on-line might reduce the time you spend in real-life social settings, but on the other hand, the internet might prompt you to get out and meet people that you might otherwise have never met (cuz they seem so cool in cyberspace).
Quality: Does the internet increase your chances of meeting those really special people who can became your best friends, lovers, soulmates…? Or do you think that, overall, the internet sends you on more wild-goose chases – making you think that maybe you would be socially better off to just forget about meeting people from on-line communities?
5 Answers
- Holiday MagicLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
In terms of my own life: I only meet 'real' people, not 'virtual' ones. If I were not having transportation problems--caring for an elderly gent following heart surgery...I would not be on line often at all.
Overall: People are not getting enough exercise, social interaction, etc.--because they work all day, and then spend the remainder of their time on line.
The internet would NEVER prompt me to chance meeting a person from cyberspace in the 'real world'
The internet can be fun, but I cannot comprehend becoming involved with someone met on the net. No lovers, no soulmates, no best friends--they need to come from the 'real' world.
My computer is like my TV, stereo, DVD player, etc.--just a form of entertainment.
- 1 decade ago
The best things in life are the ones right at your door. I've met some great people thru the web and if you just apply what you are and what you do in real life online, you will meet some great folks from across the ocean. There are some that leave nothing to imaginiation and those are the ones you want to avoid. Those who seem to cry for attention are the ones you want to avoid. Socially, I think its best for you to be in the fresh air meeting people than online. This is just coming from me. If you meet online, then meet later in person and its a great relationship..then go for it. It all is based on how real you are online and how real you are in real life.
- 1 decade ago
Quantity: Well, the internet has been some what of a help meeting new people, I mean like down here, I get helpful suggestion from people who have experienced similar things to me.
Quality: I haven't met anyone, that I've to talk on the internet first, and don't plan on doing it, but it has some what help me with my low self esteem problems and girl problems, so it has help me with chances at meeting new special people. It also has helped me be more open to differrent things, a while back, I used turn away from emo/gothic people and sterotype them, now I realize they're human beings like all of us!
- 1 decade ago
To start as I will edit this...
Is talking on the phone socializing? Is the net just another form of socializing, just different.
Because your pen pals with someone in another country, who you will never meet, but have been for over 25 years - is that not socializing?
So, the balance of whether on or off line socializing inhibits us ...well, that would depend on the individual, but all and all - its all socializing.
To be continued...
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