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In essence, boundaries that should be in place for healthy real life relationships and friendships should be just as stalwart in online ones - maybe even more so, because the picture is never complete, and its only with a LOT of time, and communication, that those missing pieces can be sketched in somehow.
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Signed.
Unfortunately I always have to keep in mind (now, after all my
WoW experience) that not all the people I talk to are mature(not as a matter of age but behavior) and well-educated, intelligent...
About what is real and what isn't... i guess we've spoken a couple of times about it and I think my attitude hasn't changed yet. There are dreams and fairy tales. No matter of what person you are - you need those to live. Some people create their fairy tales, some people live with somebody else's. And from my point of view if that fairy-tale used to drive you (and that's not a safe trip, when you're surrounded by a rough reality) now you feel safer if you can somehow control it.
If you dream and if you're driven by a fairy tale - you're openly honest and thus vulnerable. I guess most of us have experienced this on our own skin... and even though you tell you're not that much into RP now - there's something else changed. For example, you're writing such topics on SL forums. That's almost the same thing - you're being absolutely (i suppose?) honest and by that you're becoming vulnerable again. But it's not a bad thing but a very good one if you're surrounded by
real friends.
Or maybe it's just what I see.
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blegh... i think i've written some senseless crap... a little bit drunk. ><