@Manick, My view exactly! that's what I meant by exhbisionism (in a way). Why would you want to share your private life with random people on the internet?
My explanation was exhibitionism... lol

[color=RED]EDIT:[/color] right exhibitionism, sorry my spelling is horrible.

....you meant exhibitionism, right?....

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exhibisionism doesn't fit. More like the need for friend.

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exhibisionism doesn't fit. More like the need for friend.

@manick, i understand what you mean about the internet, i think the same way about forums like this

however, i dont wanna sound like a martyr for all the myspaces and facebooks out there, but you guys are taking these sites a bit out of context. sure there are people who go nuts on these sites, but that doesnt speak for the whole. i like to use my facebook/myspace to keep in touch with friends back home now that im away at school, basically as an email address. that doesnt mean i have no friends here and im begging for attention. i just like to stay connected w/o my friends with killing my cell phone minutes

you dont have to be one of the ppl who base their lives on these sites to have fun with them. and well if your dumb enough to put any of your really personal information on these sites, than its your fault.

oh and ares, your avatar is trippin me out right now

I see no point in joining "social networking websites". But i do join online gaming clans and such. But iono if that counts.

(and to all those grammar and punctuation nazi's out there, I know iono isn't a real word)

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I guess in this way I kinda see the internet as a video game. It's fun to play every now and again, but it shouldn't add stress to your life. When you start to divulge personal data online though, it narrows the gap.

So, you wouldn't believe in online love relationships ne? >_>

Online love relationships? thats scary man..i once got a girl who came out of nowhere, added on her msn buddy list and suddenly, i was her boyfriend. I have no idea how she got my e-mail -_-. and besides....do they even last? o.O 😕

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Some do, some don't I guess.

A friend's sister met her husband online and they are now living happy together. It's probably a lot harder, since you ain't with that person irl, but sometimes, it might just be worth the trouble and all.

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So, you wouldn't believe in online love relationships ne? >_>

Unfortunately no 😐

I do not deny that many people have found love through the internet using services such as eharmony.com or through other ways--I'm glad that they found something that worked for them. However, I've seen my share of the semi-political situations that turn up online. Traitors this, traitors that. He spoke behind my back, she spoke behind my back... If we're not careful, then we end up right where we started.

I've found over the years that you need to maintain a wide detachment in order to make many decisions as a manager not only in real life but online as well. What becomes a problem is when you begin to have some sort of emotional attachment to an activity or cause. What only compounds the problem is when you are intimately tied to the situation as a result of carelessness in maintaining your anonymity. Maintaining your composure becomes much more difficult when you know that your personal identity is on the line.

Now I know this all seems rather extreme, and in most cases it is. I speak from personal experience however. I used to go by my real name in online forums and was not too careful with my identity. In the end, the administrator of a rival forum used knowledge of my identity to threaten me (think addresses, names, you get the point), and since then I have been much more careful.

daed, I respect your position. I believe that many people can use these social websites and have a lot of fun with them. I do not believe that people are dumb for using them though--I simply believe that people are ignorant about the internet and the seemingly sketchy lines between what we know as virtual lives and real lives. For most people, there is only a real life. Ultimately, this may just be one of the evolutions that the human race needs to go through.

In the end, I guess my distaste for online social networking sites comes from the fact that I personally see no positive consequences to them. Sure, you can keep in contact with people you know, but then again, you have an email address which will exist ten years down the line as well (or better) as facebook continues to exist.

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Then again, I run an online manga site & forum... so what do I know? 🙄

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(and to all those grammar and punctuation nazi's out there, I know iono isn't a real word)

i cant help but feel a little targeted by that

WOW. Who would have thought that there would be such deep posts in this topic. You could actually learn a lession from Manick. I can see why using ones real name wouldnt be smart, because i use my full name on skype and have where i live and so on in my profile on there (if you dont know what skype is, its like MSN and AIM but you cant talk to people from all over the world on it and call them on it too for free). So the thought crossed my mind that what if i pissed somebody off really badly on there and they wanted to actually go and hurt me or something? They have my name and they now what town i live in, so its not like its not impossable that they actually wouldnt be abil to go and do it.
Now i have a hard time seeing that happen, but then again i dont think Manick thought that he would be threatened, because he went and used his real name on a forum. I know im starting to think i should go and tone down some of my info on Skype becuse of what was said in this topic and im sure some other people might have learned something from what Manick said 😃 . (im sure i really come off sounding like im paranoded, because of what i just said)

And about Myspace and all that. I just dont care for them. I am on facebook though, because a girl i know and Japan wanted me to join it. I didnt want to at first, but i did want see her profile because i havent really gotten to see what she looks like before and to go check out her profile on there you have to join it first.......so i did.........i feel like i was suckerd into it lol 😳 .

Hi guys,
I think its really cool that people ( ecspecially manick ) really took this seriously. Real information on the internet is a big thing and it is exploding at the moment. You Tube, myspace, and many others.
I respect the fears mentioned about opening yourself on the internet to an unlimited base of strangers, but i think the possible advantages haven't really been listed.

              For example www.hospitalityclub.org  , this site really helps. I've token a 30 hour traintrip to siberia with 4 friends to meet a complete stranger, who let us stay at his and his brothers apartment, took us to see the urals, took us to a sauna in the woods right next to a lake and invited us to eat and drink vodka with him. In return we paid for the expensises. That was great. So much better than staying at some hostel that only serves rich backpack tourists. I had a finnish girl who was working in kopenhagen stay at my place and took her to berlins best comic store. She picked me from the thousands of berlin people because we were both comic/manga fans. During the world cup i told Stan from Austin more about soccer than he ever wanted to know. As revenge he filled me up on baseball. I believe that for every psycho/idiot on the internet there are more than a hundred ok people.   
            
       The internet is a great place to find somebody who also wants to go to the same Concert your friends don't want to go with. I'll try finding some people who will go to the erlangen Comic festival this year over the internet because i don't have any comic addicted friends here. 

      Or another social networking website kind of thing. www.fooserama.de There all the participants of the berlin table soccer league are listed with all games and home team and pic. Sure, some sicko could find my picture cute, go to a game, wait untill i leave the bar and then rape me. But thats just the risk of being alive. On the other hand i can check whats up with the other players, find out for what team that guy plays i meet yestersay, and so on. 

                   The possibilities are pretty neverending. Sure, my futur boss or whatever can check me up online, but i think thats the price you pay for being open.

So the thought crossed my mind that what if i pissed somebody off really badly on there and they wanted to actually go and hurt me or something? They have my name and they now what town i live in, so its not like its not impossable that they actually wouldnt be abil to go and do it.

The guy you get in a fight with at the super market is probably a lot more dangerous. Anybody who has your name and your general locating can probably get your adress if he puts in the effort. Its been that way for a long time, since telephone books.

To online love relationships. I had a classmate who just looked for girls intrested in guitar in ICQ, and wrote some of the girls listed. It ended in a 2 year relationship. It can work.

@manick, well said i gotta respect where your coming from. I too try to be a little detached, only in different circles

on the online love, thats a bit more tricky. i just saw this video on heavy.com the other day about this guy whose friends tricked him that he was "dating" this girl(really them) for a month or two. i felt so bad for the dude.

i think that occasionally they work, a friend of mine is currently dating this cute local goth chick thru myspace, but your steppin into dangerous territory

@Lezard,
Rule #21 of the internet: If your girlfriend ends in .jpeg, she is not real
I sorta find this to be quite true 😃

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