Discussion: Real Life

[asterroc]

"Real life should take priority over the virtual, such as cellphones, social networking, and video games."

Discuss!

Comments

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

I'm really bad at "should" and tend to focus more on what people are actually doing and why. When I was spending more time/effort on online stuff that was because of physical distance from my close friends and I also had a lot of time on my hands, so that seemed like a reasonable thing to do. Now that my close friends are mostly nearby in physical space and grad school is eating up a lot of my time, I find it's less worthwhile for me. In general, meatspace interactions have more richness and depth for the time/effort expended on them (meaning it's possible to get similar richness and depth out of online interactions but that requires more time/effort), so I'm finding that arranging my life in and around meatspace is overall easier and more fulfilling for me. (it helps that I have more control over my meatspace than I did when I was younger)