Everywhere today I hear how the internet is making relationships less personal. People becoming hermits. Or false relationships.
I gotta say. I can’t but disagree. Or maybe I’m the falsifying impersonal relationships girl. Having lived all over the United States (okay, four states) I have met a lot of people that live far away. I’ve known a lot of people that have moved far away from me. I have facebook friends everywhere from Kansas to Michigan to Israel and hop around to Australia and back. Yes. A few of those relationships are impersonal. I only keep them on my friends list to check up on their lives. You know, see who’re they’re dating. Say happy birthday…etc. Oh you know you do it too.
The internet allows me to keep the important relationships alive. (assuming the other uses the same crutch).
I can see my childhood best friend and chat with her on skype. I get to talk to my boyfriend and talk almost daily. despite the grand body of water and land that separates us. I use it to talk to people who live only two hours away back in the KC metro.
It lets me do this. (Now granted. This may qualify as impersonal. But I hope I make it personal-ish!)
Maybe it just comes down to the age-old answer to all. Balance.
I get what you are saying and yes, I think it is true but I also think there are seasoned friendships. Like there are times to be bff’s with people and then sometimes you move to being more acquaintances and sometimes you are just on the outskirts with them. Not that you don’t care any less about that person, it is just for whatever reason, life has taken you or they on a different course for that particular season. Like with me and you. I felt super close to you when you were in ‘My’ small group back in the day…but we couldn’t really be bff’s because you were 13 and I was a “grown-up” but now we both are and I live on a different continent. BUT through internet we can still talk and pray and sort through life every now and again and I am so so so thankful because you (and all the other girls) mean the world to me and I love you dearly and can’t wait to see where your future takes you. Yeah, so I am thankful for the impersonal internet relationships…for me it makes life more personal. I don’t know for the people in the States, but for people like me it helps bring people back together.