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- From: wallace@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Glenn Wallace)
- Subject: Re: About Responses and Things That Make You Stop & Read
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.083227.9851@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1993Jan1.062548.12356@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:32:27 GMT
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- ddl1542@hertz.njit.edu (Derek Lee!) writes:
-
- >that most people would keep it brief. But here, (okay so maybe you are
- >costing the net $$$, but besides that) I think there is much more freedom
- >to be had in describing yourself. There are a lot of posts which look like:
- > Me: ____ _____ _____ _____
- > You: ____ ____ ____ ____
- >which doesn't tell me or anyone anything about the person posting, other than
- >those same concrete facts like age and height...in other words quantitative
- >things which tell us nothing about the real person behind the keyboard. This
- [...]
- >In order to get some type of positive response on this group, a posting has
- >to be unique; it has to have more than ___ ISO ___, because in a group with
- >so many of this type, who would stop specifically on yours, and moreover,
- >why, unless they knew enough about you to make a judgement, roll the dice,
- >and take the gamble?
-
- Well, people could just be applying these criteria in order to meet
- someone.... emphasis on MEET, I can't imagine anyone deciding to spend
- their life with someone based on their first post.
-
- People need time for relationships to develop. I see a.p.a as a way of
- *meeting* people.
-
- There are some things that might rule out a relationship.
-
- e.g. Me: hates-smokers-with-a-vengeance
- You: a non-smoker
-
- If "you" were a smoker, am I likely to even CONSIDER you? Uh-uh.
-
- I think the metricated, quantitative data might be a bit superficial,
- but I guess that is up to the individual.
-
- If you post saying...
-
- Me: 6'4" dark hair stunningly handsome
- You: 5'10" blonde large-breasted IQ=240
-
- ... you have your sights quite 'focussed'.
-
- So I think the electronic forum is a way to meet a different 'sampling'
- of people, if you like. If you see somone that interests you, due to
- hobbies or religion or who-knows-what, you can converse and see how
- things go.
-
- I doubt I could make one post which would 'sum-up' all there was to
- me... isn't the discovery an ongoing thing? I know what you mean, a hint
- of what the person is really like would be nice, but I guess people just
- focus on other things initially.
-
- Glenn
-
- Glenn Wallace (g.wallace@trl.oz.au) == A Man Without a Country
- "Could you please direct me to my own reality? I seem to have misplaced
- it...."
-