Tue May 23, 2006 4:42 pm
i dont use MSN either, but when i saw where Fizty lives i realised there's a pretty good chance he knows some people, that i know live up there. So i asked him and he did and i'm pretty sure i'll meet you one day.....Christmas maybe 
Tue May 23, 2006 5:29 pm
yeah whenever your seeing your cousins 
Tue May 23, 2006 10:40 pm
The way I see it.You would have to talk to a person like a year or even more to really know him.Its not like that you speak to a person only for a second and want to meet him.If two people want to meet they both need to agree on that.When I think a little more about.If you would meet somebody of the net it would be really uncomfortable.Because you never know what will happen.
Tue May 23, 2006 11:20 pm
hm how interesting. there are a couple guys on msn that i'd like to meet just cause they seem like pretty cool guys and also they live in places that are tourist attractions anyways.
Wed May 24, 2006 4:39 am
My case's the opposite. As some of you knew, my ex-friend who joined the NLSC ended up a nightmare, so my theory is that if I get along well with someone on NLSC, I would get along well with in person... But, but, I'd rather keep NSLC contact restricted to the internet since by default it's already such an impersonal and detached atmosphere.
Wed May 24, 2006 4:59 am
So you and Legend broke up? What was it? The kids? Was he shooting blanks?
Wed May 24, 2006 4:13 pm
VanK wrote: Was he shooting blanks?
Maybe we should set up a giant 'meet an NLSC member day'
-it has to be a public holiday for all countries
-in Australia(we have kangaroos)
-and no n00bs that join from the release of Live 07 can come
so if someone can work out a date......
Wed May 24, 2006 4:36 pm
Australia's too hot. Like I said before...
Unrestrict3D wrote:Party at my house!
Wed May 24, 2006 5:23 pm
why dont we have it in horsham, the cops are really slack on underage drinking 
Wed May 24, 2006 5:54 pm
Well maybe there should be no underage drinking. I'm too old for that anyways
Wed May 24, 2006 6:16 pm
Yeah if I went to an NLSC meet up I wouldn't want you little shits getting drunk and pissing me off I'd take you to the cops myself.
I'd take you to the cops myself.
Wed May 24, 2006 10:43 pm
cyanide wrote:My case's the opposite. As some of you knew, my ex-friend who joined the NLSC ended up a nightmare, so my theory is that if I get along well with someone on NLSC, I would get along well with in person... But, but, I'd rather keep NSLC contact restricted to the internet since by default it's already such an impersonal and detached atmosphere.
What happened with that? I wasn't here.
Thu May 25, 2006 7:36 am
Ouh, now this is an intresting discussion.
I started out a cynic in my early internet-days. That would be about 5 or 6 years ago that I got broadband. Before that I used Napster and read underground usenetgroups. But since the arrival of a decent, low-priced and constant connection I really started using the internet.
In the beginning I really thought that people who put too much into "e-friends" were idiots and desocial persons that probably smelled and could never e-v-a-h get along with real people in everyday life. But then I started making true friends over text-based communications. And I have never had a problem with friends, neither on the internet nor in person. So that made me start to think that my inital presumptions were wrong. And now I know they are. Because persons shine through, no matter which way they communicate. Body-language is just a qualification and another dimension to communication. Would you ever consider paralyzed people as unsocial or unable to make friends? My hope is that you would not.
Now I know that is a pretty far logical leap. So I'll explain the connection.
Textbased communication is more or less a synthetized form of communication where you scale away the body-language and intonations at the same time as you negate a certain amount of responsiveness. Now tell me if that isn't the exact same things as - say - Steven Hawkings is bound by?
Anywho, the initial question. Right.
I've made loads of good friends through the Internet, from all over the world. I'm stationed in Sweden and have had visitors from Norway, USA, Scotland, Germany and the Netherlands. All through the Internet. And we've gotten along famously. Now I don't keep in contact with all of those people, but during the time we had contact, both over the Internet and in person, we've been true friends. These days I count one of the people I met over the Internet (and now I live in the same town as him, through pure coincidence) as one of my best friends.
The Internet is but another way of making contacts, and friends. Much like in real life you grow apart and loose contact with eachother, but I wouldn't isolate MSN or any other media as the reason for this. It's just human nature.
I started out a cynic in my early internet-days. That would be about 5 or 6 years ago that I got broadband. Before that I used Napster and read underground usenetgroups. But since the arrival of a decent, low-priced and constant connection I really started using the internet.
In the beginning I really thought that people who put too much into "e-friends" were idiots and desocial persons that probably smelled and could never e-v-a-h get along with real people in everyday life. But then I started making true friends over text-based communications. And I have never had a problem with friends, neither on the internet nor in person. So that made me start to think that my inital presumptions were wrong. And now I know they are. Because persons shine through, no matter which way they communicate. Body-language is just a qualification and another dimension to communication. Would you ever consider paralyzed people as unsocial or unable to make friends? My hope is that you would not.
Now I know that is a pretty far logical leap. So I'll explain the connection.
Textbased communication is more or less a synthetized form of communication where you scale away the body-language and intonations at the same time as you negate a certain amount of responsiveness. Now tell me if that isn't the exact same things as - say - Steven Hawkings is bound by?
Anywho, the initial question. Right.
I've made loads of good friends through the Internet, from all over the world. I'm stationed in Sweden and have had visitors from Norway, USA, Scotland, Germany and the Netherlands. All through the Internet. And we've gotten along famously. Now I don't keep in contact with all of those people, but during the time we had contact, both over the Internet and in person, we've been true friends. These days I count one of the people I met over the Internet (and now I live in the same town as him, through pure coincidence) as one of my best friends.
The Internet is but another way of making contacts, and friends. Much like in real life you grow apart and loose contact with eachother, but I wouldn't isolate MSN or any other media as the reason for this. It's just human nature.
Thu May 25, 2006 12:09 pm
Nick wrote:cyanide wrote:My case's the opposite. As some of you knew, my ex-friend who joined the NLSC ended up a nightmare, so my theory is that if I get along well with someone on NLSC, I would get along well with in person... But, but, I'd rather keep NSLC contact restricted to the internet since by default it's already such an impersonal and detached atmosphere.
What happened with that? I wasn't here.
'Legend' joined the forums.