Meeting the people behind the avvies does not really make them significantly more real to me, but it does allow me to put a physical/official face and voice to the person in my thoughts (assuming it's a single person and not a shared pseudonym.)
Edit: Photos and skype etc. help to establish identity, but it's nice to meet in person, as there's some stuff that doesn't quite come across the same (if at all) in other modes of communication.
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Hrrrm, it's not that I "forget" just that... when I get up away from the computer I'm no longer "Maxine". It's all part of my second life here. There have been many times I have chatted about my conversations with my family that I've had on here, but still - there's a big distinction for me.
Maxine might "seem" like me, and she is half of me, but it's like Paprika, or Lain even (if anyone has seen either of the anime - Paprika I've only recently seen myself) I'm the same person but I'm different "enough". Not that that's important except that to me I do place a big distinction on it. Web friends are very very dear to me, but they can never compare to real life friends. I would like many of you to be real life friends.
And maybe this is caused by the fact that I've been around the internet for so long. I know how quickly people come and go. ^_^; I still have people on my IM from when I was 12 years old. I need to clean the damn thing out. I dunno what happened anymore. Why did we stop talking? When did the seperation occur? Will they pop back into my life.
Starfe is a good example - I've known him for 10 years or so. He's been on here now and again - currently he's not posted recently. Maybe I'll see him again in a few days (I hope so, he's a real dear friend) or maybe I'll never see him again. I think there's a two year gap in our past relationship when he was gone.
Just like with ItL. Many folks are returning such as Sirth. Some have stated they can't remember why they had stopped posting - :3 but they are back now and that's awesome.
I'm so USE to this there-and-gone-but-maybe-back relationship on the internet that it's created the gap between real life and internet life for me. I get very attached to people on here, there's no doubt about that, but still, they are mostly avatars to me or just names on the screen. Hell, most of them (Rosel or Trance for example) have changed their names so often that I don't even have that :3
You're all so transient on here. Does this make you less real to me? Yes. Does this make me care for you any less? No.
I hope nobody thinks of me as being some kind of jerk for this way of thinking. 'Sides, "friends" never last long in my life, either. I always end up moving and losing touch with them. Dangers of being a Navy brat. Internet friends do not have a problem with long distance relationships because they were born that way ^_^
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BACK ON TOPIC: I'm ready to go for midnight tonight!! I have restarted my computer to make sure it's in english mode so that it is reading word counts properly. >:] BRING IT ON!!
Maxine might "seem" like me, and she is half of me, but it's like Paprika, or Lain even (if anyone has seen either of the anime - Paprika I've only recently seen myself) I'm the same person but I'm different "enough". Not that that's important except that to me I do place a big distinction on it. Web friends are very very dear to me, but they can never compare to real life friends. I would like many of you to be real life friends.
And maybe this is caused by the fact that I've been around the internet for so long. I know how quickly people come and go. ^_^; I still have people on my IM from when I was 12 years old. I need to clean the damn thing out. I dunno what happened anymore. Why did we stop talking? When did the seperation occur? Will they pop back into my life.
Starfe is a good example - I've known him for 10 years or so. He's been on here now and again - currently he's not posted recently. Maybe I'll see him again in a few days (I hope so, he's a real dear friend) or maybe I'll never see him again. I think there's a two year gap in our past relationship when he was gone.
Just like with ItL. Many folks are returning such as Sirth. Some have stated they can't remember why they had stopped posting - :3 but they are back now and that's awesome.
I'm so USE to this there-and-gone-but-maybe-back relationship on the internet that it's created the gap between real life and internet life for me. I get very attached to people on here, there's no doubt about that, but still, they are mostly avatars to me or just names on the screen. Hell, most of them (Rosel or Trance for example) have changed their names so often that I don't even have that :3
You're all so transient on here. Does this make you less real to me? Yes. Does this make me care for you any less? No.
I hope nobody thinks of me as being some kind of jerk for this way of thinking. 'Sides, "friends" never last long in my life, either. I always end up moving and losing touch with them. Dangers of being a Navy brat. Internet friends do not have a problem with long distance relationships because they were born that way ^_^
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BACK ON TOPIC: I'm ready to go for midnight tonight!! I have restarted my computer to make sure it's in english mode so that it is reading word counts properly. >:] BRING IT ON!!
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4074 words today
life is good
4074 words today
life is good
My current game projects:
茨心 -Thornheart- (jRPG, yuri) || Heaven's Kiss: Fallen Hydrangea (Twine, yuri romance)
(#dota2) I support Team DK! 国土無双 (LaNm), you will be missed...
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茨心 -Thornheart- (jRPG, yuri) || Heaven's Kiss: Fallen Hydrangea (Twine, yuri romance)
(#dota2) I support Team DK! 国土無双 (LaNm), you will be missed...
Follow me on Twitter at !
3DS - 3883:5561:7702 (Please msg me on Twitter/here/Skype if you add me!)
PAD - 201,267,866 (Japanese Servers. Common Leaders: Archangel, Ganesh)
On topic, dang, I'm screwed haha. 0 so far and I have a ton of homework. Maybe something productive will come of the drugs I get for having my wisdom teeth out on Thursday. Maybe I'll write an instant classic next weekend. You never know. But I'm guessing not. 
Nessy and I can sports and we have several fan. -Zam
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...My friend gets me into so much odd ideas that it's just ridiculous. XD I brought up how I thouht a lumberjack would make a good protagonist for a zombie story. Then she, my friend, said the lumberjack needed to have a crabfisher and and Artic trucker (debatable at this point). So, I am totally going to write this, but I need the most masculine names for these men.
What's a good manly name for a Lumberjack and a Crabfisher? Those two are definately in the story.
What's a good manly name for a Lumberjack and a Crabfisher? Those two are definately in the story.
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