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- From: prauda@dol-guldur.hut.fi (Kristiina Prauda)
- Subject: Re: net.hugs?
- In-Reply-To: taina@cs.Helsinki.FI's message of 17 Nov 92 08:20:44 GMT
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:00:38 GMT
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- Juha Taina (taina@cs.helsinki.fi) asks:
-
- >In <13NOV92.21925419.0026@lafibm.lafayette.edu> CE42@lafibm.lafayette.edu (CE42000) writes:
- >>>I too am new to this news group so hi, y'all. I was ungraciously dumped
- >>Hi! *hug* and welcome to ARC!
- >
- >I'd like to ask why people share *hugs* and *kisses* on the net. What
- >is the value of them? Would you also hug and kiss a stranger in real
- >life?
-
-
- I wouldn't, but then again, I'm a Finn as well as you. :-) And because
- of that, can't much speak for most of the people on this net. It's
- just one of those cultural differences.
-
- But there is also a difference between people who write on the net and
- people you meet in the street: for one, the passers-by don't come to you
- to ask advice on their love lives... :-) The net is more like a group of
- people who share some things - interest in the computer networks, in
- computers in general, and in groups like alt.romance, interest in the
- more romantic side of life. When you post, you are in a way seeking a
- place in that group, and the hugs are a way for people to show you that
- they welcome you and hope that you will feel comfortable and realize
- that they truly wish to support you - if only by words from the other
- side of the world.
-
- And this is even more literally true of alt.romance.chat, the group
- where these posts seem to have appeared (I do not remember the
- specific posts myself, but ARC means alt.romance.chat - by someone
- who has already been reading it for a while). ARC is more or less
- just a group of romantically inclined friends, who send *hugs* and
- *kisses* to each other all the time, because they would probably give
- them to each other in real life, as well (and have really done so,
- from what I hear about the various ARC Chat meetings...). In such an
- inside group, it is even more important to make new posters feel
- welcome, which is why the hugs and kisses for them, too.
-
- Cleared anything? :-)
-
-
- Kristiina
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-