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From I Found It on the Internet:\u00c2\u00a0 Coming of Age Online,<\/em> by Frances Jacobson Harris:<\/p>\n

“Online communication has great potential for increasing intimacy and closeness in human relationships.”<\/p>\n

(page 50)<\/p>\n

This reminds me of what I used to say when we first got e-mail–“Somebody finally found a way to get men to write letters.”<\/p>\n

I’m also reminded of how, before she died, I got to know my grandma better than I ever had before–after I moved to Germany and began posting pictures of castles.\u00c2\u00a0 She was my biggest fan.<\/p>\n

Here’s how Frances Jacobson Harris\u00c2\u00a0led up to\u00c2\u00a0the above quotation:<\/p>\n

“While new technology takes away some things, it also gives back others.\u00c2\u00a0 In the virtual environment, we lose visual cues, changes in tone of voice, and other subtle nuances that are clear in face-to-face interaction.\u00c2\u00a0 But the virtual setting brings along its own cues and conventions.\u00c2\u00a0 Participants are often more direct with one another, more candid, and so more “honest” than they would be otherwise.\u00c2\u00a0 Contacts may be more frequent and spontaneous, if only because they are easier to initiate.\u00c2\u00a0 There is simply less inertia to overcome, less start-up time.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone is infected by this ease, not just teenagers.\u00c2\u00a0 Using e-mail and instant messaging, I have kept up with my far-flung middle-aged cousins as well as my teenaged nieces.\u00c2\u00a0 One no longer needs a “reason” to make the contact or, as my nieces would say, it’s just not such a big hairy deal any more.”<\/p>\n

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