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Do you find technology isolating? If we weren't so wired would we all spend so much time alone?

59 responses to this plurk

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:16PM

  AmandaS

  says

  we definitely would spend more time active outdoors

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:17PM

  th13rteen

  says

  nope. we would be spending more time outside playing, hanging out, etc

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:17PM

  beminedesign

  says

  I'm pretty isolated 'cause I work alone, but have stayed in even more since plurking!

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:17PM

  germaine

  nope... doesn't spend much time alone...

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:18PM

  Inhibitor

  thinks

  it depends on your definition of "alone". I'm currently having a conversation with people I would never have met without technology.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:18PM

  frappelattes

  says

  it is definitely isolating... probably not the best thing since nothing beats human interaction

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:18PM

  KSan

  says

  I spend less time alone because of technology.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:19PM

  Eeyores_Tail

  would prefer to be alone, i see people all day long. when on the puter, alone, I feel at peace.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:19PM

  KSan

  says

  My two best friends I met online and had an exclusively online relationship with them for 2 years before we were physically near each other

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:19PM

  classicalgeek

  says

  i spend less time alone because of technology--i can arrange meetings online!

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:20PM

  bloggeries

  says

  Inhibitor alone I mean no one around. As stimulating as chatting online is it still doesn't really fill the void of face to face interactn

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:21PM

  Stephanator

  yes, it certainly can be isolating, but we also have the opportunity to talk with people all over the world we wouldnt have otherwise

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:22PM

  Youredge

  says

  online friendship's can be made online my two best friends were met on the XBOX and they got married and had the 1st XBOX baby

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:22PM

  WayneJohn

  says

  I'd probably be reading...I've never been a social butterfly

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:23PM

  templestark

  yes, i think now we have so much people will say less bad about it but it has many minuses in this area

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:25PM

  KSan

  says

  I feel that online you have the potential to know someone far quicker and better than if you'd met them face to face. Face to face, we

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:26PM

  KSan

  says

  usually wear masks until we're more confident. I don't find the same thing online... OFF social sites that is.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:25PM

  KSan

  says

  I met my best friends through a common interest. There was no reason for either to lie to me because the aim of both sites was not to meet

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:26PM

  KSan

  says

  people but to discuss a common interest...they just started to come out. Their real selves that is.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:27PM

  Liz	only if you allow it to be, IMO.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:30PM

  reneguerrero

  definitely.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:32PM

  bloggeries

  says

  it's like sure we're all "here" in this plurk but I look around and there is no one HERE.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:33PM

  sociallydistressed

  says

  I think tech is a double edge sword. To some it can be a gateway to getting out more, to others a trap to stay indoors.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:33PM

  templestark

  don't buy it, just forgotten how it's supposed ot be, as if shared interests wasn't a reason to be friends before computers.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:34PM

  KSan

  says

  Well no, I was just clarifying how close people can get online because they're not face to face. I'm friends with people who wouldn't have

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:34PM

  bloggeries

  says

  I ran a BBS in 1995ish and I had 1 paying customer for access. Turns out the kid my age lived 2 blocks over.Hung out for years.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:35PM

  KSan

  says

  spoken to me otherwise. I mean, being honest here. It's not to say that "real" friends are useless...just that the internet is far from

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:36PM

  KSan

  says

  isolating.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:36PM

  bloggeries

  says

  the reality of the matter is once you graduate school if you work online for a small firm or anywhere. You don't physically meet many ppl.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:36PM

  KSan

  says

  That's very, very true. There was a period in my life where ALL of my friends were virtual...just because I had nothing in common with

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:37PM

  KSan

  says

  coworkers.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:39PM

  bloggeries

  says

  lyricalkris - Many have no co-workers or no co-workers close to being a "peer group".

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:39PM

  templestark

  See you've accepted this "...you don't physically meet many ppl." as if it's true or the way it should be. It's not.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:40PM

  KSan

  says

  templestark it's true for a lot of people and always has been. Surely you've read of people who are always reclusive and alone.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:41PM

  templestark

  I'm going off the questions first asked. Yes. No. Some people are still socially awkward or prefer their own company but that's diff. ?

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:41PM

  templestark

  and I typed my last reply before I saw ksan's intervening one.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:42PM

  Mahala

  says

  I grew up in a large city, but I live in a very tiny, very "Bible Belt" town. Think, square peg, round hole.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:43PM

  Mahala

  says

  The internet keeps me sane

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:44PM

  bloggeries

  says

  templeshark nothing to do with socially awkward. I just mean with technology it makes less need for face to face interaction in today wrld

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:45PM

  bloggeries

  says

  So most spend more time alone regardless if they are social butterfly; hermit or something in the middle. not person specific. but societal

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 06:45PM

  templestark

  i know, that's why I said it's a different question. ? Not "shark"

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 07:23PM

  xǝpuɐ☆

  says

  ex wife decided I should spend more time alone anyway

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 07:31PM

  syktek

  says

  i see to be online everywhere i go

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 07:39PM

  thehawke

  says

  I suppose it depends on how it is used. LOML and I met online. 13 years later, here we are

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 07:41PM

  PlurkSensei

  thinks

  we would talk to people more. Like, *real* people. Er, no offense to everyone <3 Altho' the Internet has saved some from depression~

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 09:22PM

  classicalgeek

  met her second husband on a BBS

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 10:15PM

  LeslieCarbone

  has

  met many, many ppl she would never know w/o tech.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 10:19PM

  donwhite

  says

  I'm not isolated! My wife brings me a beer and a sandwich a couple times a day.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 10:44PM

  Becca L-Smith

  says

  I'm a sociaphobe so technology IS a fantastic way for me to connect with real people. I have friends here that I would never have IRL.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 10:51PM

  ScrapNancy

  says

  I find technology a great way to meet up with quirky people like me. And I'm a socialphobe so the computer helps a lot.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 11:34PM

  Teeg	would likely spend more time curled up with a book, so it's actually less isolating for me.

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  Jul 29, 2008 - 11:34PM

  Cudd

  says

  nope