Thoughts following Lin's presentation

After I sat through Lin's presentation yesterday (first presentation of the sememster for this unit - Well DONE LIN!!), my thinking machine started whirring again..hehehe...

Well, I was thinking about what Lin said about trust, I have realised that it has been my biggest issue regarding online interactions(virtual communties) eversince we had started this semester. I know that we can still be friends with each other no matter how we look or where we are, but using mediums that allow fake presentations (fakester) it is so difficult to totally deal with it. I have never used friendster but i've certainly been on other software's like that and created my own share of fakesters (fake names and pictures) and met a fair amount of them as well.

When I hang around online i guess my main reason and my strongest committment is to the people I've known my entire life (family) or my friends whom I have/had physical contact (face to face interactions) with. It's not that I would trust just anybody I see or meet in the real world in a physical sense but seeing a person face to face will tell me alot more abt that person than a piece of software can

or I could always rely on my senses (assessing body language which I am pretty good at ;)

cheers
shabz