You have a point, Buny, but, on the other hand, the internet can also be seen as an extra option. I get more than enough face to face contact in the day, at night I prefer to avoid it. The internet and specifically a place like this, means you can interact with others and have far more control over the amount of contact you have with them. You can just walk away when you get bored. I don't see online socialising as a substitute for actual socialising, I see it as an opportunity for more socialising, but just of a different nature.
If crimes against good taste were on the statute books they would have locked Disney up and thrown away the key. A greater purveyor of falseness there never was.
If you behaved in accordance with your convictions in a situation where a lot of people would just have tried to avoid confrontation I would call that integrity.
Perhaps if the blogger took more care over what he/she was writing there wouldn't be so many misunderstandings. It's very easy to blame others for our own shortcomings.
Catfoot, How can you call it a tragedy when a human being is killed, yet criticise anyone who is against the death penalty? Isn't that a contradiction?
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RE: Power cut - where were you when life ended?
You have a point, Buny, but, on the other hand, the internet can also be seen as an extra option. I get more than enough face to face contact in the day, at night I prefer to avoid it. The internet and specifically a place like this, means you can interact with others and have far more control over the amount of contact you have with them. You can just walk away when you get bored. I don't see online socialising as a substitute for actual socialising, I see it as an opportunity for more socialising, but just of a different nature.