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PhilSlave -> RE: Hi Regular posters, is your offline world as busy as your online. (6/15/2011 4:27:59 PM)
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Or is BDSM purely something you do here posting very regularly? I wonder because I certainly would not have time to post as much as some- due to real life.
Thanks for a very interesting question! I feel like this question is rooted in an increasingly obsolete premise that it is impossible to have both a full online presence and an active "real" life. I was just having a conversation about this a few days ago with a coworker before a meeting while I was also checking my Twitter feed and sending some text messages. She and I are both 30somethings, and we were reminiscing about the days when there was a very clear, bright line demarcating "online" and "offline" lives as discrete entities. Back in the day, most of us were still on dial up or else we had high speed access that was tied to a clunky, immobile desktop. Signing online was a ritualized and clumsy process. Startup times for machines tended to be insane. Internet navigation was clumsy. Forums were few and far between and there was extreme hostility to "newbies" (hostility in which, to admit, I participated gleefully once I was established in a given online scene). In other words, both the technology and the social politics of maintaining an online presence were complex and cumbersome in the extreme. It was natural to draw the sharpest possible line between cyberspace and the meatworld.
These days, things have changed precipitously! There is still a distinction of course in the way I interact with people I've never met in the flesh and people online. But the line between online presence and the physical world has blurred into an increasingly seamless flux known simply as Life. Making a few posts on a forum or updating a given online profile is no longer an all night process. I write and think pretty quickly and spend most of my day when I'm not commuting, at the gym, or out with a lady friend within easy reach of either a notebook or a smartphone. I assume other people have similar lifestyles. So it's really not a big deal to drop in, say something, and then move on. I'm sure many or most of us have gone so far as to snap a picture of something with our phones and either text or email or upload it without really breaking stride or even pausing whatever real life conversation we're in the middle of. Modern life is magic!
Collarme is different from some other forums I frequent simply because I'm obviously never going to post here from a work connection. But even with CM, I often post from hotel suites between meetings or in coffee houses before a real life friend shows up (I'm often early!) or just wherever and whenever the fancy strikes me from my phone (trickier, this site and my phone don't get along too well). The social politics here are also much more progressive than they were back in the day on similar sites and BBS'es since everybody has been super-welcoming to this particular newbie, which I really appreciate! <3
So I just think it's interesting how, in some assumptions that some people make, some rather archaic notions about the distinction between cyberspace and "real life" linger languorously.
Thing is, I reckon that post took some thinking time in the real world...... ;)
Maybe 90 seconds, and I'm also on the phone ordering a little Thai food. :D
Can't beat Thai food. If you ever go to Bangkok, Phuket or Krabbi, I can suggest some great eateries. :)
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