Oddly enough I'm one of those people who find it very hard to have deep, meaningful conversation without hearing and speaking directly to another person. As a computer geek people might think I would use e-mail or IM for such, but I don't and on the few occasions where I've tried, it failed miserably. Nuances of tone are important to me in such discussions and there's a very small percentage of people who write well enough to communicate those nuances in a letter ... granted, those few who CAN do so are almost invaluable as then you have a lasting record of their thoughts.
I'm definitely NOT one of those people.
I was really surprised by two things in yesterday's poll.
1) There's an awful lot of people who are at least fairly lonely. This backs up the point from the seminar.
2) People have what they consider deep, meaningful conversations with a whole lot more people than I would have guessed. That includes me. I had to stop and actually count off names and was surprised that I hit seven. I didn't really think my circle of trusted friends was large enough to support that, but apparently I was wrong. It's no wonder I find my time disappearing all over the place ...
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Date: 2008-04-15 07:03 pm (UTC)I'm definitely NOT one of those people.
I was really surprised by two things in yesterday's poll.
1) There's an awful lot of people who are at least fairly lonely. This backs up the point from the seminar.
2) People have what they consider deep, meaningful conversations with a whole lot more people than I would have guessed. That includes me. I had to stop and actually count off names and was surprised that I hit seven. I didn't really think my circle of trusted friends was large enough to support that, but apparently I was wrong. It's no wonder I find my time disappearing all over the place ...