You get your computer and unload it and set it up and start searching the web. While searching you find several sites and forums that interest you. You sign up and become a member. Or you start tweeting on Twitter and making twitter friends. Same goes for Facebook. You start conversing daily with several online friends and before you know it you are having private chats online or a nice gab on the telephone! How awesome is that?
I have made many great "Cyber Friends" as I call them over the past several years, too numerous to count! I have made friends from the East Coast to the West Coast. They become an integral part of your social being.
This makes me think back to the times before computers and cell phones. We wrote letters to our friends and family and also called, watching the minutes as phone calls that were not local were billed by the minute. I actually looked forward to that mail in the mail box. Don't get me wrong, I love getting emails from friends and family giving me updates etc., but there was something more personal when you got that paper letter. I have a box of old love letters that I cherish. What do you do with old emails when you get a virus and your computer destroys all your saved and personal content because you did not do a back up? I can feel the tears welling up now! Time to start over again, sigh.
On the other hand, I have chatted and met several great friends online. Like stated before we start having personal chats and phone calls. I have also set up meeting several "Cyber Friends" and had an awesome time. The one on one connection only bonded the friendships more! It has always been a great experience for me to meet my online friends and I have never been disappointed.
So there are pros and cons from the old days to the recent times of computers, cell phones, etc. I still like getting a letter or card on my Birthday or on a holiday as an email card doesn't cut it for me, like I was forgotten and sent the ecard at the last minute. But having a chat with you online or getting those jokes and pictures forwarded to me at least lets me know I am being thought about. So get on your computer and let me know what you think about this? Or my address is...
