This is a very simple question that affects me on a daily basis. It is a question that is slowly ceasing to exist in any form: the offline world vs. the online world, due the the association and interaction I have with people online. Let us imagine a scenario where you question the validity of giving more importance to chatting someone online, to obtain nothing other than satisfaction from that chatting, compared to offline activities.
For this question, let us assume that you have no financial interest in that online contact with whom you are chatting, and that you interact with that online contact simply because you enjoy or value it in some manner other than to pass time. Would you give up some offline activities, on a one-time basis or even regularly or randomly, in order to chat online with someone that you have never met offline?
Some things offline that you may skip:
Going to a movie
A meeting with a friend or someone else
Meeting someone
Going to an art exhibition
Going shopping
Going for a walk
Going out to run with your dogs
Going out to steal other dogs to run with them and then returning them afterwards
Going to the bar
Going to a restaurant
Going out for anything that can be skipped in emergency situations
The online thing that you may do instead of the offline things:
Chat with someone online, that you know a bit, but that you have never met offline
What do you think?
For this question, let us assume that “it depends on the person” phrase is not available - we are not considering the attachment of an online person here but the existence of such a situation. A yes or no, or some other answer, besides the “it depends” phenomenon, can do better here. What do you think? Is there anything you can think of, that you may never give up offline even once, for anyone online that you have ever met?
Similar example: would you skip going outside just to read an upcoming article at this site? No??!! :’(
Thank you for reading. I hope you skipped and paused this reading in the middle at least once in order to go and do something offline.
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