week 15 question 1

When it comes to cyberspace I believe that it is a big part of our lives, just because with all the social networking sites keeps everyone connected. I don’t have any friendships that exist exclusively to cyberspace because I believe that those relationships don’t last very long, and can be based on fictitious beliefs, I say this not because I think people are always lying, but when it comes to cyberspace, many like to create their own personality instead of shining their own true personality. I don’t think that anyone can have a true friendships/relationship without the f2f because they don’t know who they truly are and how they really would react to you face to face. In the cyberspace world, people expect you to believe what they tell you based on their profile or what they write about, but how will you really know an individual without seeing them and having a conversation that’s face to face to see their reactions. I’ve known my mother for my whole life and have had f2f relationship with her the whole time, yet there are times when I still don’t get her, and here we are saying that cyberspace relationships can only exist and keep a real relationship going. I am sure that there are individuals who do have friends exclusively online, but do you really know them as a person besides what they are telling you? It’s hard to say until you have the f2f relationship at one point.