Two weeks ago, I completed a mission. To meet in person all my online friends. I don’t think there’s anybody left on my list to meet!
Ten years ago, it was widely unaccepted to meet someone you met online. How can you be friends with someone you never met? would be the most common question. Nowadays, well…of course you can. Though the web two point oh world, we exchange more on the Internet with people regardless of their proximity.
Viv and I have known each other for more than 10 years. It started out on a yahoo club (now known as yahoo groups), then icq, then email, then blogs, then facebook and various social networking sites.
To this day, we still don’t call each other by our real names. To her, I am Tink. To me, she is luckyduckluk. Those awesome Canadians!
it’s interesting how we always call people we meet online by their online names. i introduced myself to online friends i met once as “GTChemoreceptors”… and began to wonder if we should consider how screen names would sound in real life when we make them up online…
call yourself GeeTee??