something i read about cyber relationships

[prettygreeneyes]

E-mail fosters intimacy, as the telephone does but with usually greater permanency and potentially greater intensity.

 

One of the most intimate of processes is the merging of two minds or two souls through e-mail communications between them, when there is nothing material between them but wires and electrical or electromagnetic signals, not even certain knowledge of their real names or any knowledge of the bodies they belong to.

 

To be sure, this intimacy, as real as it is and as extraordinary as it might be, may be exceeded by what it sometimes leads to.

 

If, after reaching e-mail intimacy, the names become known and the bodies merge, the word "intimacy" is inadequate to describe what is attained, there is no adequate word.

 

(this was posted on a site called link removed by someone called quintessenual)

[1Adam12]

Interesting analogy they give with the telephone and all..

 

Phil