It's 2.45am......

and my head is swimming with thoughts again. It has been for the last hour. Many of them are the same thoughts that I have had over and over again during the past month or so. At least I am swimming in them, rather than drowning in them.

I often (sometimes hourly!) wonder about the net as a tool for bringing people who wouldn't ordinarily cross paths together. I think it is fantastic that we can bring people into our lives and share the lives of others across so many miles and cultures. I do however wonder if there is a tendency for people to think of the relationships they make, and the interactions they have in the same way as they would those in RL. I think that it can easily become habit to read what others have written (listening to what they say) and assume that the writer knows you have...... in some ways almost like the celebrity gossip mags and the fans, where the fans know what's going on in the celebrities life but the celebrity has no idea of that. In RL there would be body language, noises of agreement etc to show that the other person has heard.......in the virtual world there is nothing unless the reader (listener) takes the time to type a response...... There are times when people crave the anonymity, they want to send their thoughts somewhere and are not looking for responses...... that is different. In my head relationships are built and maintained on interactions, and interactions are a two ways street......