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Thursday, November 30, 2006
8:08:00 PM EST
Hearing Cowboy Junkies, Shining Moon
Hi folks -- been in meetings all day today (and there's going to be more of the same tomorrow -- oh, joy), so I've got some of your questions and other stuff I need to write about piling up.
In the meantime, here's a story for your perusal: A BBC News article today, Virtual pals 'soar in importance', says that, for people who participate in online communities, "Virtual communities are as important as their real-world counterparts."
Here are some statistics from the article, which is drawn from a USC study, The Digital Future Report, which has tracked the opinions of the same group of 2,000 Americans for six years running:
* More than three-quarters of them use the Internet.
* 43% of online networkers felt "as strongly" about their web community as they did about their real-world friends, and that the average net user made 4.6 online friends this year.
* Of the friends they've made online, they've met an average of 1.6 of them in person (or as we used to say, IRL -- "In Real Life" -- do people still say this?)
In addition, some other tasty tidbits:
* 7.4% of those surveyed kept a blog, double the figure in 2003
* Since 2003, the percentage of people who've posted pictures online grew from 11% to 23.6%. Some of them were probably even clothed, too.
I'm planning to do a follow-up entry later on, talking about the differences between friends, online friends, and online buddies, but I have to think about it some more first.
Thanks -- Joe
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8:08:00 PM EST
Hearing Cowboy Junkies, Shining Moon
Virtual Friends: Real Relationships?
In the meantime, here's a story for your perusal: A BBC News article today, Virtual pals 'soar in importance', says that, for people who participate in online communities, "Virtual communities are as important as their real-world counterparts."
Here are some statistics from the article, which is drawn from a USC study, The Digital Future Report, which has tracked the opinions of the same group of 2,000 Americans for six years running:
* More than three-quarters of them use the Internet.
* 43% of online networkers felt "as strongly" about their web community as they did about their real-world friends, and that the average net user made 4.6 online friends this year.
* Of the friends they've made online, they've met an average of 1.6 of them in person (or as we used to say, IRL -- "In Real Life" -- do people still say this?)
In addition, some other tasty tidbits:
* 7.4% of those surveyed kept a blog, double the figure in 2003
* Since 2003, the percentage of people who've posted pictures online grew from 11% to 23.6%. Some of them were probably even clothed, too.
I'm planning to do a follow-up entry later on, talking about the differences between friends, online friends, and online buddies, but I have to think about it some more first.
Thanks -- Joe
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Just thinking out loud -- I think we need to set up a place where AIM Pages users can meet other AIM Pages users to add to each other's Buddy Galleries -- getting comments like "yo, hit me up" is great, but there are better ways to do it than in random comment threads... -- Joe
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I spent two years in AOL chat rooms years ago. In this type of atmosphere you got to know the regulars but it still doesn't compare to the intimacy of sharing your life with others. I am personally not a share with all kindof person but the few people that I do share with, I would suffer a great loss if I lost their friendship. If anything happened to any of them, it would be like loosing a family member. I just had my first phone call with a Jlander and I loved it. Interesting to put a voice behind entries you have read.
The only drawback to online intimacy is the greatest depth of the assurance in what you feel does come down to the tried and true. You really need real life experience to feel assured of loyalty and whose going to come to your house and help you move on the weekend,lol...You can feel this is true in your heart but real life, glues it. One of the reasons why people easily get hurt with the programming issues here is because this is another home away from home. Everything is personalize. There is an "ownership" in JLand which is why its a real community. I do not know of one ISP company that truly offers what Jland is. This community is unique which is something we should be treasure and remember. Great entry Joe. -Raven
12/15/06 6:50 PM