Posted by paxvox on July 16, 2003, at 18:28:04
In reply to You guys are really impressive., posted by Sabina on July 15, 2003, at 23:50:21
Stange how "relative anonymity" allows people to help others to whom they wouldn't say "boo" to if they met them on the street. I mean, how many of us talk anout our problems outloud to the other patients in the Pdoc waiting room? Hmmm? How many of us would not feel comfortable talking to the people we "chat" with and exchange information with here if we were sitting in a room together?
Is it just this anonymity that "allows" us to be more open and honest (for the most part, as we well know that there are posers here just "playing" for the fun of it)? This is indeed an interesting phenomenon I have found with discussion boards and chatrooms. If we were to see live-feed pictures of the people we were interacting with, I wonder how open we would be.
I find it a shame that we can't reach out to a person in obvious need we may see in the "world", yet are willing to proffer all the assistance in the world to someone that exists to us only in cyber-reality. Please don't take this as a put down of this site or the many, many helpful people who post here. It is more an observation. I wish somehow as a "people" we could be so open and concerned to those "real" people we come in contact with on a daily basis that we could be as helpful. "They kill 'em with their love, every day. They kill them with their love." Strange, that.
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