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I recently met with a friend, in person, to have coffee and discuss business ideas. How crazy was that? Not born into the technology age, I am fascinated by sites such as my space, e-harmony, bloggers, etc. A lot of friendships today seem to resemble the fairy tales my grandmother used to read to me. Once upon a time, someone posted a picture on a site. We don’t really know if it was truly them or a body they scanned and then pasted their head on top of it. Yet we get involved in the game of finding internet friends. We share our deepest concerns, our hopes, our financial situations to total strangers but we don’t even introduce ourselves to the neighbor next door. The written word carries so much weight with it. A total fabrication can seem so real in black and white. Yet the internet is used without regard to any emotional consequences. We complain about the number of unsolicited e mails that we receive. Yet we continue to shop on line rather than go to the store, interact with others and examine the quality of the product we are looking to purchase. Read the rest of this entry »