Being online at the same time is the virtual world’s equivalent of being in the same room with someone else. It’s a lot easier to pretend you haven’t seen them, though.
Oh and shutting your eyes is much easier as well…you just logout/disconnect/logoff/shut down. Then, for all purposes the world you don’t want to be a part of has been destroyed…at least momentarily.
Peace reigns in the world of escapism.
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July 26th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Agree with thou completely. I love the “appear invisible” button on Yahoo for this exact reason. And then there’s always “block”… ah joys!!!
July 27th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
How true…either way!
sometimes I also wish that the other person pretends that am not being seen!