tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364145.post110991791508474430..comments2020-04-12T01:49:17.894-05:00Comments on LIS 640: Digital divides & differences: I'm proud of my momGreg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364145.post-1109998362025296702005-03-04T22:52:00.000-06:002005-03-04T22:52:00.000-06:00It's funny for me to think about this, since I sta...It's funny for me to think about this, since I started going online about 13 (!) years ago when "normal" people didn't do that sort of thing. It was considered pretty weird to spend that much time with the computer, or to talk to people through the computer. Most people had never been online at all. But now things have gone the other way, and people who don't go online are considered the weird ones.<br /><br />I was very active on a local BBS/chat board as a teenager, and I remember that we had a slang term for people who were not online. We called ourselves "Netters", "BBSers", or just "geeks", but people who didn't go online were "real people". This was said with irony, but we were well aware that to most of the world "real people" were people you met in person. They wouldn't have given any weight to friendships or interactions that took place online. It wasn't even a topic that most people thought about. With Match.com and Facebook and all, things are very different now!Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09892934409758178223noreply@blogger.com