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  1. November 30th, 2006, 09:54 PM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Virtual pals 'soar in importance'

    Virtual communities are as important as their real-world counterparts, many members of online communities believe.
    More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6158935.stm
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    However, the report also discovered virtual friendship is not confined to the PC - those surveyed had met an average of 1.6 of the friends they had made online in person.
    I think I actually met that one that is only six tenths of a person.....

    The numbers don't surprise me at all....and I commend the BBC reporter for not doing what most American reporters would do...add on some dire warning about how dangerous it is for people to spend time on the net.
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    Quote Originally Posted by maxximilian
    I think I actually met that one that is only six tenths of a person
    Maybe it was a tennager or a kid or a Jockey ?

    Of course because they were smaller than you expected they were ony three fifths.
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    You may be right about the Jockey.....

    I did see a whole lot of horse manure.........

    I would be curious as to what constitutes a "community" in that study. They mention MySpace...which is very different from a place like this. Yet I consider VDR a community.....
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    More than three-quarters of Americans are net users, spending an average of 8.9 hours online a week
    Seems I'm spending that much time on-line everyday lately.
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    Yep... some online communities seem to grow and flourish... others seem to stay in a holding pattern and run smoothly and others spiral downward into a big festering boil of nasty, vicious, manipulative people... I've seen em all

    I have met quite a few people in person that I have developed relationships online with ... never had a bad experience. But, then again I use the brain God gave me .. the same as I would when conversing and going off with someone in real time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crimson Blonde
    others spiral downward into a big festering boil of nasty, vicious, manipulative people...
    Aint that the truth.....LMAO
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