{"id":608,"date":"2003-06-11T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T09:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/06\/11\/life_without_im.html"},"modified":"2003-06-11T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2003-06-11T09:57:02","slug":"life_without_im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/06\/11\/life_without_im.html","title":{"rendered":"life without IM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although i spend a lot of time researching social communities, i tend to avoid meeting new people online.  It&#8217;s not that i don&#8217;t trust people online (because they usually come via friends or via interests), but that i am dreadful at maintaining virtual or long distance relationships, let alone building them.  At the same time, i was thinking how essential virtual connections are for me to maintain my real life friendships.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/000444.html#000444\">While cell phones are essential for maintaining face in teenage culture<\/a>, i definitely find IM pretty crucial for my life.  I&#8217;m far more likely to ping my IM friends for dinner and see them more often simply because i can reach out to them with ease.  I keep up with my IM friends on daily life activities and they end up being my trusted network.  I become friends far more quickly with friends i&#8217;ve met offline who have IM than those who do not.  This was definitely true in college, but i&#8217;m surprised at how much it has persisted to this day and been impacted by the fact that many of my friends have stopped using IM and have fallen off of my daily radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although i spend a lot of time researching social communities, i tend to avoid meeting new people online. It&#8217;s not that i don&#8217;t trust people online (because they usually come via friends or via interests), but that i am dreadful at maintaining virtual or long distance relationships, let alone building them. At the same time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instant-messaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}