There is this odd idea held by many today it seems that what happens online isn't real. Okay I could maybe understand that mentality in 2000 when the i-space still felt new to people. But today? Why is that happening still today?
This is a question that has preoccupied me since I first came across it in the mid-1990s, at the beginning of the web. But with all the things that have happened becuase of the net, the people who've met through it, forged relationships, found lost relatives, gotten jobs, made deep friendships... with all of those thousands of people out there, why does this idea persist?
What is it about non-protein-based corporeality that gets people to reject the notion of online interactions as real? Or worse, that allows them to believe that they can use online interactions as a kind of fantasy testing ground for their supposedly offline "real" selves?
yes I understand that most people don't buy into Cartesian metaphysics...the "I think therefore I am" that devalues the physical proteomic flesh. But at the same time, they should know that when they're on the net, interacting with others, that it is real people they're interacting with, real psyches and feelings and dreams and persons. It's real, not fantasy.
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