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From: ahb@ccice2.UUCP (Allen Brumm)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Meeting people on the nets
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 22:12:01 EST
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> [Sing ho for the life of a bear!]
> 
> Several people have mentioned meeting friends as well as 
> SO's via the net.  On the bitnet, this is, I expect, even more
> common than on Usenet due the the message facility.
> I have met many people via net conversations, including my
> best friend here.  Several people have had 'relationships' via
> the network without ever really meeting each other for many months.
> At least one couple was well on the way to getting married before they
> ever met face to face.  I find this sort of thing very interesting
> in that I have many friends now who I have never met or even talked to
> on the phone.  What sort of implications are there in an electronic
> friendship?  How does it compare to 'the real thing', or is it just as
> real?  What does the net think?  I'm interested in finding out.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> --Scott Dickson

Scott, the answers to your questions are clear:

	a) Digital friendships tend to be quite discrete.
	   Analog friendships vary continuosly with time.

	b) No, it is a myth.

	c) It doesn't.

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S. Bear