First of all, I’d just like to thank everyone who congratulated me on my blog being the first to be show up on the blogger team’s spam-dar. I got an email from the “Blogger Team” yesterday and I emailed them back asking if they had any positions opening to become a member of the team. Needless to say, they are yet to respond.
Now lets get down to some Transient and Long Term Online Relationships discussion. Suller says, “On the one hand, text-only communications restrict the experiential range by which people can express themselves, but at the same time the partial anonymity it offers also allows some people to disclose themselves more freely”.
I think this line ultimately sums up why some people prefer online relationships and why others do not. Ultimately, it’s a question of insecurity. Do you value your own anonymity over having “true” 100% fully-sensual relationships?
Or can you combine the two? I was talking to my friend who took a course similar to this one at Vanderbilt. He told me about a man on Second Life, the virtual reality world, who developed a machine that would pleasure him in reality in the style that his Second Life partner was pleasuring him in virtual reality. Pretty awesome? Incredibly gross? Awesomely Gross?