[OFB Cafe] Well, Where Is Everyone?

[Fred A. Miller]

saki wrote:
> Timothy Butler wrote:
> 
>> 	Quite true, Fred. My prayers are with you, Terence. Thank you for  
>> sharing a bit about your wife -- she sounds like a truly lovely person.
>>
>> 	Blessings,
> 
> Thanks, Tim, and long may we all enjoy the many we have.
> 
> I have often wondered why not much is discussed or published about the 
> supportive role(s) that the 'net provides for us.
> 
> There is a lot about the negative aspects- child grooming, pornography, 
> gambling etc., but little about the positives.
> 
> I know that there are a number of support groups, help sites, and so on, 
> but one rarely hears of them. I'm really talking about the informal 
> support that occurs, world-wide, race/ethnic grouping free, between 
> people who share a mailing list.
> 
> Certainly I have benefited on a number of occasions from "the kindness 
> of strangers", and perhaps there is a need for a noun or noun phrase to 
> describe someone who is a net acquaintance, a net friend or a net companion.
> 
> I'm not talking, obviously, of the kind of very artificial "social 
> networking" of Facebook et al, but rather the kind of relationships that 
> build (perhaps over years) of being on the same site.

Over time, we often get to know some of our "Net." buddies quite well, 
and we
establish friendships that do last sometimes, a lifetime. There are many 
who I'd
very much like to visit here in the US who live some distance from us, 
and others
like Terrance who I have the same desire to see and have no hope of 
doing so.
That is the frustration I suspect many of us share.

Blessings,

Fred

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