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On-Line Friendships
Debbie Reynolds' Singing in the Rain challenge has been tremendous fun, providing us with a great excuse for some real-world interaction with our fellow AR members.
 
But as I wrote that, I thought "wait a minute, a telephone conversation isn't really real world", remembering those times before the Internet when real world meant face-to-face. Now a chat on the phone is kind of an intermediary state, between inhabiting the same physical space and connecting on-line.
 
What is interesting is how real and solid personal interactions have become all along that spectrum. There are people we know from personally meeting and spending time with them, people we know only from on-line interaction - many of them here on AR - and, more rarely than in the past, people we have only ever spoken to on the phone.
 
And as it happens, we feel we actually know many of those from the last two categories pretty well. Nothing quite replaces physical interaction - our ability to interpret social cues from body language and word tone is hard-wired and hard to replace. In person, we can meet someone new and like them right away, based on an immediate read of those cues.
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