OK, now here's a potentially interesting topic for discussion. Or, at least I think it might be one....which is several people on this forum's cue to click Next now. :-)
What triggered this rap was noticing that some on this forum seem to repeatedly try to turn the discussions between themselves and other posters into Personality-To-Personality discussions. Such people seem to thrive on finding out as much as possible about the other people's lives and families and backstories and presentstories as possible, and basically interacting on a very personal and thus personality-driven level, as if they would if they met face-to-face. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that I'm comparing and contrasting this approach to communication on the Net -- which is, after all, a remarkably NON-face-to-face medium -- to other approaches I've seen on other Net forums, and occasionally on this one. That latter approach is, as I see it, more based in Mind-To-Mind than it is Personality-To-Personality. Those who pursue this latter approach seem to relate to others almost as if they're really communicating Mind-To-Mind, on the *level* of Mind and Ideas, without all of that Personality-To-Personality shit getting in the way. NOT that either approach is "better" than the other, or "superior" to any other. I just noticed the different approaches tonight, that's all. Carry on...it's just a rap...
