As per title. Are we all slaves to our computers? Do we sit night after night clicking on threads instead of getting out there meeting 'real' people? I must admit this is a rare occasion for me. I am normally tucked up in bed at this time.. tonight I'm being a Devil and breaking a few house-rules.

I have made a few great friends on the forum. We go out lots so I for one am glad to be clicking on threads and talking to people on here.

Its cheaper than the phone too!

I for one have made some great friends on here and met some top peeps as a result of it..

Conclusion - Computer Socialising ain't a bad thing :clap:

One of the nice things about the Forum is that we can't see one another so we can't judge one another on looks alone. How many times do you go out and see a dodgy character and will have nothing to do with them. I spent my boozy years on the rock scene and can assure you that some of the most ominous looking characters were some of the nicest people you could wish to meet.
Go out and meet people? More like go out get jostled, ripped off, threatened and deafened by the so called music of today, no thanks!

'staying in is the new going out'.

We mainly visit friends, or they visit us - at all hours as a few forummers may confirm.

Having a child alters patterns a bit, and we don't go out as much as we used to, but when we do we try and make it count. :D

(They Might Be Giants were very good recently :D )

I work with computers during the day... so I socialise on here then... During the evening I try to get the heck out... !! :)

Not dead at all - years ago people would have long phone calls, write letters, etc. and still meet up. Today we post to forums and chat (well, I post to forum, anyway...still haven't quite got my head in to chat space) and probably write fewer letters and make fewer phone calls.

And we still use all this tomfoolery to arrange to meet people for drinkies!

As was said above, dealing with people through the computer allows you to engage with their minds very early on - all the crap about looks and whether they're wearing the right clothes or not are invisible and so you deal with people in a totally different way.

I find the mindless attachment to the mobile phone to be worse - apart from it being a tether, removing privacy, the sight of people wandering around texting and calling people they'll see again in 1 hours time is rather sad.

Joe