I've always disliked how people want to privilege face/face interactions over internet interactions as more real, or, as you say, something that means we "know" people more (nope, heck, a good part of my family knows zip about me, and probably would freak out like hell if they did know the zip they don't know). I run into that all the time in teaching: people who claim that simply by being in the class and seeing the faces of students, they just know better education is being done (I never did).
"I can hear them! It's good enough for the blind!" -- Felicia Day's character on The Guild, on her WoW buddies
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Date: 2008-04-30 01:33 pm (UTC)"I can hear them! It's good enough for the blind!" -- Felicia Day's character on The Guild, on her WoW buddies