Being that it’s fall convention season for ministry folks, I thought it was a good time to talk about bridging "virtual" relationships into "real world" relationships. (A strong sub-plot at YMX) I’ve done a lot of this… in fact some of my best friendships right now started virtually before becoming real world. With something like 50% of 2006 weddings having resulted from meeting online… this is something we all need to get comfortable with.
Here’s a cool post about that. Chris provides some great advice for me in that I’ll be meeting tons of people and even vacationing with some that I’ve only ever talked to on the phone or chatted with over AIM.
Personally, in meeting people whom I only know from YMX or their blogs… it’s been a very cool experience. People are just people. It doesn’t matter where or how I meet folks. People are pretty much the same all over. There is always a little anxiety right before the meet. But very soon afterwards it falls into a normal friendship. (Fast friends, so to speak)
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Brian Eberly added these words on Oct 03 07 at 1:29 amThe relationships I have made is one of my favorite things about blogging!
lisa added these words on Oct 03 07 at 9:27 amone of my very favorite things about the net is the friendships i have. one of my favorite things about the fall is getting a chance to put faces with those names. i am really excited about that this year, more-so than normal i think….
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