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Blogs > greg16ge > Musings, dreams, and visions

Online is mind-expanding  

greg16ge 67M
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4/27/2016 9:13 pm
Online is mind-expanding

What a day!
13 hours of stocking tomatos, avocados, strawberries and apples, and frying lots of chicken. Feeding and serving my neighbors. What could be better? A bit worried about my co-worker who didn't show up and didn't call (hence the 13-hr shift for me). Not like her. Hope she's OK. On the other hand, some great, mutually supportive conversations with co-workers, and mutual gestures of appreciation with customers. True teamwork, in service to a great neighborhood, making each other laugh through a typically stressful day.
That's real life, RL for short. Framing that day was a bit of surfing the profiles of some lovely ladies on this site, and some reflections on how we relate to each other online. What's really kinda cool about social networking is how much control we can exercise over how we present ourselves, what we let others see, and how they perceive us as a result. It gets pretty mind-expanding, even mind-blowing, when you consider that everyone here is inventing their online persona, making choices and focusing our attention in ways we can't do in RL relationships.
Or can we? After all, one person's boundary-setting is sometimes what others might consider deceptive, even lying. Ultimately, we all would do well to consider our own selective self-disclosure before judging what we see as deceit or dishonesty in others.
Was the online beginning and end to my day as "real" as my work-a-day life? Most definitely. More important, you lovely women gave me something captivating to think about this morning while stacking pears and apples, and something to look forward to as I slogged pound after pound of chicken through breading and hot oil, on their way to my neighbors' shopping carts.
Cheers, y'all. Thanks for reading. I'd love it if you would join my friends network and share what you think about this stuff. Sweet dreams. See you in the morning.

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