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  • AmandaS says
    we definitely would spend more time active outdoors
  • th13rteen says
    nope. we would be spending more time outside playing, hanging out, etc
  • pritcharddesign says
    I'm pretty isolated 'cause I work alone, but have stayed in even more since plurking!
  • germaine
    nope... doesn't spend much time alone...
  • Inhibitor thinks
    it depends on your definition of "alone". I'm currently having a conversation with people I would never have met without technology. :-)
  • frappelattes says
    it is definitely isolating... probably not the best thing since nothing beats human interaction
  • KSan says
    I spend less time alone because of technology.
  • Eeyores_Tail
    would prefer to be alone, i see people all day long. when on the puter, alone, I feel at peace.
  • 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
  • classicalgeek says
    i spend less time alone because of technology--i can arrange meetings online!
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • WayneJohn says
    I'd probably be reading...I've never been a social butterfly
  • templestark
    yes, i think now we have so much people will say less bad about it but it has many minuses in this area
  • 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
  • KSan says
    usually wear masks until we're more confident. I don't find the same thing online... OFF social sites that is.
  • 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
  • KSan says
    people but to discuss a common interest...they just started to come out. Their real selves that is. :-D
  • Liz
    only if you allow it to be, IMO.
  • bloggeries says
    it's like sure we're all "here" in this plurk but I look around and there is no one HERE.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • KSan says
    isolating.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • KSan says
    coworkers.
  • bloggeries says
    lyricalkris - Many have no co-workers or no co-workers close to being a "peer group".
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. ?
  • templestark
    :-) and I typed my last reply before I saw ksan's intervening one.
  • 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.
  • Mahala says
    The internet keeps me sane
  • 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
  • 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
  • templestark
    i know, that's why I said it's a different question. ? Not "shark" :-D
  • xǝpuɐ☆ says
    ex wife decided I should spend more time alone anyway
  • syktek says
    i see to be online everywhere i go
  • thehawke says
    I suppose it depends on how it is used. LOML and I met online. 13 years later, here we are
  • 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~
  • LeslieCarbone has
    met many, many ppl she would never know w/o tech.
  • donwhite says
    I'm not isolated! My wife brings me a beer and a sandwich a couple times a day. (LOL)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Te-ge
    would likely spend more time curled up with a book, so it's actually less isolating for me. :-)
  • Cudd says
    nope

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