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I have a question for you. Would you be willing to be on a documentary that explores internet social interactions? It would compare how people interact online compared to how they interact in person. You would get a chance to meet some of the people you know on-line.

I am asking, because I have this idea for a documentary or television show and I am wondering how many people would actually be willing to be filmed and to have their on-line interactions documented.

I am still questioning if I want to participate myself or just be on the other side of the camera.

What are your thoughts and opinions?

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NewsJunkie #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (13 hours, 42 minutes after post)

Baba, I just caught an interview about a similar idea with women who are sharing secrets online from the site Experience Project:
http://www.experienceproject.com/grou…

The news interview http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=74…

I think that online interactions magnify how we are prone to interact in the real world. It is accelerated since how we mingle is not buffered by social courtesies that usually take precidence in day to day interactions.

I hope these links help you to form your documentary.

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babacup 19 #
Indianapolis, IN, US | 6 months, 1 week ago (14 hours, 30 minutes after post)

Thank you. I went to check out the links. I been looking for a expert or someone who has studied the online interactions vrs real world interactions. I am going to see what info I can find on the lady they had talking on there.

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Marylou 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (15 hours, 32 minutes after post)

Well Babacup, I’m a little “camera shy”! And judging on the very few replies to this post, I’m probably not the only one!

Personally, I’m pretty much the same in person as I am online though. It seems it’s probably not at all like that for most people. Not being different online as I am in real life, I would be very much interested in seeing such a documentary. It would help me understand a lot about why people are so different on the Internet.

You know, that reminds me of something… It’s like when I go to parties and at the beggining of the evening, the atmosphere is pretty stiff, people don’t talk much… until they’ve had their first few couple of drinks! Then, conversation starts flowing a lot more easily. I never needed alcool to help me open up and be myself around people… So anyways, I learned my lesson. Now, I arrive at parties a few hours late. Everyone is a lot more relaxed when I get there and interaction is that much easier.

babacup 19 #
Indianapolis, IN, US | 6 months, 1 week ago (17 hours, 14 minutes after post)

Your right Mary Lou, I think it is going to be hard to find people willing to open up to a camera for all to see. Me included.

By the way, I need a drink to loosen up in social situation. My problem is I can’t drink much. So I move real quick from socially comfortable to take me home I am drunk. Like two drinks and I am gone. So by the time you get there, I will be asleep in the car or something. lol

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Marylou 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (17 hours, 29 minutes after post)

LOL LOL You’re funny… :):)

Marylou 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (17 hours, 43 minutes after post)

Forgot to mention, I actually handle alcool better than a lot of people. I can drink all night ’til the sun gets up, put everyone to bed, pick up empty bottles, clean up a little, sleep a few hours and wake up feeling happpy and ready for a another fun day! Yay!

The thing is I just don’t NEED it and don’t mind going without it at all!

(Ahhh! Life ain’t fair… Hehehe… lol)

2greeneyes 5 #
Midvale, UT, US | 6 months, 1 week ago (20 hours, 25 minutes after post)

I hardly drink myself, never been a outlet for me. I do agree and find your right though. People are looser and you can hear the noise of conversation pick up. I take the worst pictures. Out of 100 maybe 1 good one, so NO,! LOL

Seriously though, what a great idea, but gosh Im happy with you all thinking how awesome I am! Get me in front of a camera, oh man, My mouth doesn’t know what to do, I don’t know how to blink, bad hair moments, oh man, its not pretty. How bout I send you some of my home movies, you tell me what the he** is going on.

As for my personality, I swear this is all I know how to be. This is me, All day, everyday. I do see people behave differently online, drinking, or around someone. Masking is a way to distract someone from what you don’t want them to see. Never a fan of it and can spot it a mile away.

So glad to see you around Baba, your a joy and present some great material. If you realllllly want me, you could possibly sway me, Im not shy, and I bet you would agree, yep, she is the same.

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babacup 19 #
Indianapolis, IN, US | 6 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 2 hours after post)

Greeneyes, you are definitely on my list. I will be trying to sway you when I have a plan in action. I would love to have a few of the girls get together. I love seeing all you get rolling on a post. You make me laugh so hard some times.

Have you heard from Shie lately? I would love to see the two of you get together. She is on my list too.

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c-eek 15 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 5 hours after post)

I might be interested in participating in your documentary if the relationships to be examined were those made on a social network like Luminosity. The friendships we form here on help.com are byproducts of our common interest in helping people. I disclose more personal information here than I do anywhere else because I base my replies on my life experiences. That kind of disclosure has a tendency to make people uncomfortable in real life meetings and they would bore your audience, for sure.

babacup 19 #
Indianapolis, IN, US | 6 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 13 hours after post)

C-eek you may have open my eyes to something here. I keep asking myself why we give out so much personal information on line? (besides being anonymous) In person, it would take me knowing someone a long time before they knew all this stuff about me. I think it is, like you said, that these kind of discussions in person, make people uncomfortable.

Would it make an audience bored or uncomfortable, I do not think so. I see my audience as people like me, who are fascinated with how people tick. How they became who they are. I think the audience will love all of you as much as I do. They will want to know more about you.

If we were all neighbors, do you think we know each other the way we do on Luminosity? I ask that because I lived next to my last neighbor for over 4yrs. Our kids started kindergarten together. We were friends. But now that I have moved and we communicated through emails more, I think we know each other better. We tell each other more then we did when we saw each other everyday.

Does it have something to do with writing, instead of talking. Because we can express ourselves without seeing the reaction of the other person? Is it because we do not hear the response of the other person until we have our full thought out?

I am thinking about these beautiful letters that my husbands Grandmother wrote. They were so beautiful in there wording. They were so open and expressive. I wish I would have saved them. Before the internet, when people wrote each other letter, did they have a similar type of experience as people do communicating in emails?

Too many thoughts coming to mind right now. I need to refocus.

What I have read about people making documentaries, is they have a vision of what they want it to be, but then a different story comes out along the way. I already feel that. I started out with an idea, now there are so many ways I can go with this. By husband said go with your gut feeling and you won’t go wrong. I called that listening to God and he calls it listening to your gut. But I know they are one in the same.

Now that I got all those thoughts out, C-eek, I would love for you to be part of the documentary. Once I know what direction I am going with it, I will let you know.

C-eek you may have open my eyes to something here.  I keep asking myself why we give out so much personal information on line?  (besides being anonymous)  In person, it would take me knowing someone a long time before they knew all this stuff about me.  I think it is, like you said,  that these kind of discussions in person, make people uncomfortable.

Would it make an audience bored or uncomfortable, I do not think so.  I see my audience as people like me, who are fascinated with how people tick.  How they became who they are.  I think the audience will love all of you as much as I do.  They will want to know more about you.

If we were all neighbors, do you think we know each other the way we do on Luminosity?  I ask that because I lived next to my last neighbor for over 4yrs.  Our kids started kindergarten together.  We were friends.  But now that I have moved and we communicated through emails more, I think we know each other better.  We tell each other more then we did when we saw each other everyday.

Does it have something to do with writing, instead of talking.  Because we can express ourselves without seeing the reaction of the other person?  Is it because we do not hear the response of the other person until we have our full thought out?

I am thinking about these beautiful letters that my husbands Grandmother wrote.  They were so beautiful in there wording.  They were so open and expressive.  I wish I would have saved them.  Before the internet, when people wrote each other letter, did they have a similar type of experience as people do communicating in emails?

Too many thoughts coming to mind right now.  I need to refocus.

What I have read about people making documentaries, is they have a vision of what they want it to be, but then a different story comes out along the way.  I already feel that.   I started out with an idea, now there are so many ways I can go with this.  By husband said go with your gut feeling and you won't go wrong.  I called that listening to God and he calls it listening to your gut.  But I know they are one in the same.

Now that I got all those thoughts out, C-eek, I would love for you to be part of the documentary.  Once I know what direction I am going with it, I will let you know.

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2greeneyes 5 #
Midvale, UT, US | 6 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 14 hours after post)

Just about everyday Baba,
Marylou and I have coffee and make each-other stick to plans for the day. Kind of a pact to keep each-other accountable on goals. Shie and I are fond of messaging and speak most everyday, both such special ladies. We are fast friends.
Marylou and I are making plans to meet in New York, kidnap Shie and drive the east coast to meet many. It’s in its infancy, with plans to save for it. So many special ladies here, Miss Enigma, Annubis, Lilies, Florie, as well as yourself. You know them all, even some of the younger ones, and the guys Sans, and Shakey, gosh Richard, oh so many here I would love to meet who truly enriched my life, with wisdom, care, concern, and humor.
Gosh Im hardly swaying at the moment, just thinking about it brings a smile. I want to pull a Captain Piccard and say #1, make it so!

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Marylou 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 19 hours after post)

Hehehe…. I need a passport GreenEyes. I’m applying for it this week! Remember to make me accountable for this later. Oh and tell Shie to start packing! LOL LOL

Catch you soon! xx :) :)

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