For those that understand the separation of RL and cyber life, you have
your real friends and your cyber friends.
Sometimes some of them might cross over into your real life.
Others stay in your cyber life, but still have an big impact on you.
Then sometimes it gets confusing.
Like where certain friends belong. Say you have real friends
that you talk to online... that's normal. Then there are cyber friends
that you start to talk to in your real life, like on the phone, then others
that you actually meet. That's when it really starts to get confusing.
You have your best friends. Real and Cyber.
Like for me, my RL best friends are probably Tat and Jeremiah.
Then my cyber best friends are Carrie (Polly) and Sam.
So, what happens when one of those cyber friends crosses into your
real life?
What is their status?
That's confusing... and it kind of messes up the relationship because
you're not totally sure where they fit in.
Anyway, so to the point... that's what this page is, to recognize those
people that I talk to online that have an effect on me..
So here we go.
Above all, there is mygoosh... Polly.
Polly has more of an effect on me than anyone else I've ever talked
to online.
I totally trust her with everything. She's one of those that
will never cross into my real life because she believes in a strong separation
between the two.
But, she still has a very influential effect on it.
I talk to her about everything.. tell her things that I don't even
tell a lot of my real friends...
She introduced me to probably one of the greatest musicals I've ever
heard, The Secret Garden, and she's totally changed the way I look at the
goose, and the moose. heheheheh... I can't look at a goose without
yelling out, "goooooooooooosh!"
She's taught me a lot about myself, and changed the way I look at a
lot of things, and the way I let people affect me.
I love her with my whole heart, and I hope she knows that.
Then there is one of the most confusing of my "cyber friends," Sam.
Confusing, because I don't know if she really qualifies as a cyber
friend anymore...
See, I met Sam in person for the first time in March... we've been speaking to eachother online since around September of 1998,
and I recently spent a
whole day with her. So, I think that would make her a real friend,
yet she's still one of my cyber friends. I don't really know where
to put her, or how I feel about our friendship once that line has been
crossed.
I mean, she was/is one of my best friends online, we totally
trust each other, and we're really close,
but then, when together, in person, it's different. It's like
I know her, but I don't.
That makes things very weird.
So, when I talk to her on the computer, she's my best friend, but in
person, she's just... another person?
I'm still trying to figure that all out.
Ahhh... right now everyone's probably saying, "what about me? what about
me?"
Well, I just didn't have the time right now cos I wanted to get
this darn thing up!
But, I'll get to you later.
Promise :)