You are saying this as if you were flexing your old age to me, while so am I.
No. You can’t see their face.
Chat rooms and web forums were in some sense safe spaces. There would be intrigue, but somewhat limited by what concerns a specific forum, or even a specific part of it, or a specific chat. Even conflicts in one place between two people would often not extend to some other place.
And also, believe it or not, people frequenting same spaces would sometimes have offline meetings and know each other personally. Especially moderators and such.
But I agree that what you mentioned was like halfway there from today’s online communication which sometimes seems just useless.
You are commiting a category error: Work is not recreation.
I want to get to know people in similar hobbies so yes I would want to see them face to face. I don’t care to interact with my coworkers beyond what I am paid for. For the coworkers I do want to interact with socially, can do that outside of work.
I’m a millennial, I grew up in chat rooms and web forums. There is nothing unique to in-person interaction in what you just described.
You are saying this as if you were flexing your old age to me, while so am I.
No. You can’t see their face.
Chat rooms and web forums were in some sense safe spaces. There would be intrigue, but somewhat limited by what concerns a specific forum, or even a specific part of it, or a specific chat. Even conflicts in one place between two people would often not extend to some other place.
And also, believe it or not, people frequenting same spaces would sometimes have offline meetings and know each other personally. Especially moderators and such.
But I agree that what you mentioned was like halfway there from today’s online communication which sometimes seems just useless.
You are commiting a category error: Work is not recreation.
I want to get to know people in similar hobbies so yes I would want to see them face to face. I don’t care to interact with my coworkers beyond what I am paid for. For the coworkers I do want to interact with socially, can do that outside of work.