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I am noticing a profound change in my attitude toward how "real" net-based interaction feels. It used to feel pretty real; I could offer someone a hug over AIM and actually feel it. I ascribed this to my excellent body-memory.

Well, body-memory is still there, but no more virtual hugs. Perhaps it's because I've lived alone for a while; perhaps it's because I'm stressed (physically more than mentally) at this particular moment, but no hugs, no sympathy expressed in anything other than full sentences, no more. Conversations are fine; but real, physical communication or bust.

(This goes right along with my feeling that several people I know, including myself to the extent that I know me, have become too dependent on keeping up with friends electronically. You don't know what's been going on with my life? Well, don't you read my blog? Hm, well, blogs are fine, but aren't the end-all. And I am approaching e-mail with a progressively more epistolary attitude. Just because they are bits and bytes doesn't mean they may be given less attention than any other, "real," letters.)

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I am noticing a profound change in my attitude toward how "real" net-based interaction feels. It used to feel pretty real; I could offer someone a hug over AIM and actually feel it. I ascribed this to my excellent body-memory.

Well, body-memory is still there, but no more virtual hugs. Perhaps it's because I've lived alone for a while; perhaps it's because I'm stressed (physically more than mentally) at this particular moment, but no hugs, no sympathy expressed in anything other than full sentences, no more. Conversations are fine; but real, physical communication or bust.

(This goes right along with my feeling that several people I know, including myself to the extent that I know me, have become too dependent on keeping up with friends electronically. You don't know what's been going on with my life? Well, don't you read my blog? Hm, well, blogs are fine, but aren't the end-all. And I am approaching e-mail with a progressively more epistolary attitude. Just because they are bits and bytes doesn't mean they may be given less attention than any other, "real," letters.)