Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
I was surprised at the amount of in-person connectivity that occurs as a result of meeting people through the Internet. In comments attached to a previous posting, Community, Sharon mentions meeting her significant other online and Medley talks about meeting her husband through their mutual weblogs.
Kath states:
Something about meeting through the mind first rather than the normal route – meeting people face to face first – seems to make a stronger bond.
So much of what we are is communicated through our expressions, the looks in our eyes, the movement of our hands; stripping this away to letters on a screen and still being able to connect to people that strongly blows me away. I wonder how many webloggers have met their true love and closest friends online?
And if we don’t connect physically, will the friendships fade in time?
