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From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Why we are so cruel
Message-ID: <312@ihlpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 13:48:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 13:48:11 1985
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> I suspect that the network is an amplification or caricature of person-
> to-person social interactions, and that the person that manages to
> participate on the net without eliciting ire has no problems with other
> forms of human intercourse.  As for the rest of us... you always hurt
> the one you love... and certainly the one you have never met.

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Using the net.* to communicate is somewhat like learning to speak or
communicate when very young.

A lot of what gets said makes perfect sense to the person posting it because
they read it with all the inflections etc. built inside their heads.

Talk about practically anything with a 6 or 7 year old for awhile.
You would be amazed at how similar it is to communicating via computer net.

The imagined insults, slights and attacks occur just as frequently as does
the inability to convey even the most rudimentary of ideas.

jeanette l. zobjeck
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