PROLOGUE
From what I can see, little has
been written or
published concerning the human
dynamics of chat;
how each in chat interacts with
others. But much has
been written in other chat areas
-- -- the technical
details: (how to set up a
chat room, where to find chat rooms, write IRC
scripts, etc.).
I miss the old days of four years ago when I could
freely chat often with the extra time on my hands
to do so, in addition to other things I needed to do.
But the time slots are not found for the
recreational and frequent use of chat. ...Actually, I
almost never chatted for recreational reasons.
My site
insists that chatting should be chased after for a
purpose...a goal, not that my site insists what
that goal should be for each. But one chatter, Mason
L. Mikosky, has written much for that site of his
ideas, what he does, and tries to accomplish.
So much is possible in the chat "arena". Friendship,
casual associations, family get-togethers, love and
dating, and even online or virtual marriages; it is
all there...it is all being done. There are numerous
paths. I really wish that I could just say, "Just do
what you would do out there, out in your city or
state...communicate the same way."
No. It doesn't work that way. What would work in an
online environment would fail...could be
disastrous...elsewhere.
In any event, I hope with this book to really delve
into the differences of what is doable out there in
the offline world and what is a SUCCESSFUL CHAT
INTERACTION.
I want you to understand that I love the chat
world, the Internet with its Web, the elimination of
the effects of distance. That is what I have been
writing about all these years on the WWW.
Others have met more faces of those with whom they
chatted or instant-messaged than I have. Others have
seen more successes, more problems than I have had.
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