Pixels and their consequences

Milarky

This is not 'a real conversation' - discuss..

fc123

Milarky wrote: »

This is not 'a real conversation' - discuss..

...but it is real.

lemonjelly

Milarky wrote: »

This is not 'a real conversation' - discuss..

How is it not real? How is it not a conversation?
It is communication, between people, using language as a medium.

What definitions are you applying to "real" & "conversation"?

Optimisticpair

wageslave wrote: »

So you are all agreed. Pixels are just that and can't compete with RL friends. Even when you spend longer on the net than you do communicating with real people?

I'm not so sure that there's a competition. There's just a difference. And there are certainly plenty of real people behind the keyboards. The net is a resource for me which enhances my life.

Some of my better friends that I share much common ground with began as pixel people. They are spread over the UK and I rarely get chance to meet up with them. I spent a day with about a dozen of them yesterday though as it happens. None of them are MSE.

On the other hand I have a number of real time friends who I see regularly and they have different things in common with me to the above but again they aren't MSE.

So pixel pals on MSE understand where I'm coming from about MSE so they are the ones I exchange pixels with about it.

I can honestly say the internet has served me very well. I have a wider range of people to converse with about more topics, it has opened up another avenue for laughter and learning and a few of those people have become real time friends as well. I'd never have met them to begin with without the net though.

sss555s

lemonjelly wrote: »

How is it not real? How is it not a conversation?
It is communication, between people, using language as a medium.

What definitions are you applying to "real" & "conversation"?

Exactly! It's not every day you get the chance to communicate with a lemon jelly

There is a certain amount of imagination and reliance on your intuition involved though, which makes it more interesting on times

I just wish fc would put her legs away as i find them distracting

lemonjelly

sss555s wrote: »

Exactly! It's not every day you get the chance to communicate with a lemon jelly

Why thank you! The feeling is mutual!

sss555s wrote: »

I just wish fc would put her legs away as i find them distracting

There are so many things I could say here, but I know I really shouldn't!:)

fc123

sss555s wrote: »

Exactly! It's not every day you get the chance to communicate with a lemon jelly

There is a certain amount of imagination and reliance on your intuition involved though, which makes it more interesting on times

I just wish fc would put her legs away as i find them distracting

:rotfl:They are plastic manequin legs.
Changed to fireworks and the london eye.:)

sss555s

fc123 wrote: »

:rotfl:They are plastic manequin legs.
Changed to fireworks and the london eye.:)

Only joking fc :rotfl:

Must have been the quality of your work :A

wageslave

lostinrates wrote: »

I'd just like to say never have I felt more like having pixels for friends than I have this weekend.

If I were tipsy I'd tell you all I loff you. But I'm not, so a virtual slap on the back, chaps.

We read a great deal about the negative side of the internet, the weirdos and the not-so-virtual sharks who prey on the trusting and the vunerable. The scammers and the downright perverted who have supposedly turned the digital city into their playground.

I know they are out there, I am not a fool.

But this weekend I have actually seen the real power of the internet. Decent people coming together and doing a really decent thing.

It gives you hope.

More than that, it gives you faith.

I would be proud to call each and everyone of you friend

sss555s

wageslave wrote: »

I would be proud to call each and everyone of you friend

Steady on ws