Is the Internet any good? [rant-ish]

[ledge]

The Internet has porn.

[Juho L]

Internet forums, like this one, have created a completely new level of communication even on psychological aspect. The forums have created internet personalities. This means that we all play a role behind our more or less anonymous and "faceless" nicks and this role in some cases doesn't correlate even slighlty the real and natural personality, the one that you face on the "real life" face-to-face communication.

The reasons a internet role is formed are:
1. It's easy to be excentric and open on a forum board. This effectively eliminates the cons of shyness. It's easier for people to join a discussions and say things one otherwise wouldn't dare on a face-to-face situation.
2. The method of communication is simple text. In face-to-face communication you'll usually speak and in addition to the speech the information is transmitted by bodylanguage, tone of voice, etc. On forums everyone are on the same line.

We have brilliant forum here. We have bizarre personalities here and the regular visitors have become friends over the time. This is all thanks to the anonymous communication internet offers. It believe that some of us wouldn't have become firends if we would have met in "real life". Our internet personalities have become friends and I hope that someday I meet at least some of my buddies in real life too. At the moment I have only met Matsa briefly when he got thrown out from a gig we were supposed to meet. Hoho.

[AlexHall74]

Originally Posted by Juho L

Internet forums, like this one, have created a completely new level of communication even on psychological aspect. The forums have created internet personalities. This means that we all play a role behind our more or less anonymous and "faceless" nicks and this role in some cases doesn't correlate even slighlty the real and natural personality, the one that you face on the "real life" face-to-face communication.

Juho, you are correct with the exception of those of us who have used our real names as our forum logons. In my case it is intentional. I am very consitent, whether in the flesh or via the WWW. If you love or hate me in one medium, you'll love me or hate me in all others.

We have brilliant forum here. We have bizarre personalities here and the regular visitors have become friends over the time. This is all thanks to the anonymous communication internet offers. It believe that some of us wouldn't have become firends if we would have met in "real life". Our internet personalities have become friends and I hope that someday I meet at least some of my buddies in real life too. At the moment I have only met Matsa briefly when he got thrown out from a gig we were supposed to meet. Hoho.

Yep, but I think that most of us who get along here on the UAVF would do so in real life just the same, we just would most likely not have the benefit of each other's proximity, and hence never have a chance to become comrades. For some reason your comment above reminded me of the movie "The Breakfast Club" whereas here I always feel more like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."



Cheers!

-Alex

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by AlexHall74

Juho, you are correct with the exception of those of us who have used our real names as our forum logons.

But the name is still a name. It's not more or less real than Digital Screams or 3o3. The internet forum anonymity isn't depended on revealing your real name. You still don't interact with others as yourself, but you use a machine instead. Name is only a name. Only flesh gives the meaning for the name. For example how you could know if I'm a highly developed AI computer?

In my case it is intentional. I am very consitent, whether in the flesh or via the WWW. If you love or hate me in one medium, you'll love me or hate me in all others.

I have used my real name almost right from the beginning of my forum adventures, but it still doesn't exclude the existence of my internet personality. It's really hard to dinguish the internet personalities from the natural personality as they're almost identical, but there are some differences. It's so hard to explain. Maybe I'll just cut out this crap. Hoho.

[AlexHall74]

Originally Posted by Juho L

But the name is still a name. It's not more or less real than Digital Screams or 3o3. The internet forum anonymity isn't depended on revealing your real name. You still don't interact with others as yourself, but you use a machine instead. Name is only a name. Only flesh gives the meaning for the name. For example how you could know if I'm a highly developed AI computer?

I have used my real name almost right from the beginning of my forum adventures, but it still doesn't exclude the existence of my internet personality. It's really hard to dinguish the internet personalities from the natural personality as they're almost identical, but there are some differences. It's so hard to explain. Maybe I'll just cut out this crap. Hoho.

I get the gist of what you are explaining, Juho, but I maintain that the differences between my persona in viv vs. via TCP/IP are miniscule enough to consider the two one in the same. The only real difference is that I can't clobber you on the web, I can only spew vile words at you.

[Old Vantaa Man]

I've met Juho, as he mentioned, rather briefly, erm, and I've spoken to Alex loads of times. I think. Or was it all just a dream? It's usually about 4.30 am on a weekday when he calls.

[AlexHall74]

Originally Posted by Old Vantaa Man

I've met Juho, as he mentioned, rather briefly, erm, and I've spoken to Alex loads of times. I think. Or was it all just a dream? It's usually about 4.30 am on a weekday when he calls.

It's not my fault that the whole damn world can't be on a single time zone.

Jeez!