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Writer's Block: Snark, who goes there?
Jan. 16th, 2010 07:55 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Yes to the first sentence, but I'm going to take this in the opposite direction to what I think was intended here. As opposed to an “emotional disconnect”, I have often found it easier to open up emotionally online, to admit things I would find it difficult or impossible to say in person. I have often been much more open, vulnerable and intimate with online people than I am with RL people. Two points, though:
1) I do this probably for the same reason that is being suggested here: that the online arena shields you from backlash to some extent
2) experience has taught me that this sense of intimacy online can be largely illusory, so I attach less significance to it now. At the same time, I do recognize that being online can represent a good opportunity for opening up.
For example, me talking here and now about how I'm willing to reveal more of myself online -- I wouldn't admit this to too many RL people I know. [insert multiple self-reflexive levels of irony here]
Yes to the first sentence, but I'm going to take this in the opposite direction to what I think was intended here. As opposed to an “emotional disconnect”, I have often found it easier to open up emotionally online, to admit things I would find it difficult or impossible to say in person. I have often been much more open, vulnerable and intimate with online people than I am with RL people. Two points, though:
1) I do this probably for the same reason that is being suggested here: that the online arena shields you from backlash to some extent
2) experience has taught me that this sense of intimacy online can be largely illusory, so I attach less significance to it now. At the same time, I do recognize that being online can represent a good opportunity for opening up.
For example, me talking here and now about how I'm willing to reveal more of myself online -- I wouldn't admit this to too many RL people I know. [insert multiple self-reflexive levels of irony here]
