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October 26, 2007
Chatting too much?
Sometimes I slip into a chat room or a message board of a subject that I'm interested in, thinking I'll just be in there for a little while. But then an hour goes by, an hour! It's amazing how you can get sucked right into the conversation with people you don't know, will never really know and don't care to know. Yet on an airplane, we try not to make eye contact with the person next to us because we don't want to get stuck in a long conversation with someone we'll never see again. Hmmm. Makes you think, doesn't it?
I ask my friends if they go into chat rooms and they all deny it. Isn't that strange. We're probably chatting with each other and we don't even know it because we hide behind silly names.
So what are we replacing when we spend our time typing out our thoughts with strangers? Maybe time with family. I'm too often shoo-ing my family away while I'm in mid-sentence on a message board. Or I don't answer the phone when I'm catching up on a string that has been going on for several days and is really heating up in controversy. I might even be late going to a friend's house because I lose track of time. Don't we all look a little crazy when we're chuckling to ourselves, and then frantically typing?
Posted by Idea Man at October 26, 2007 08:06 PM