“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien One of the things that I got sucked into believing about dating was that it would be far easier for me to meet likeminded people online than in real life, because life was simply too random and chaotic for me to easily find the kind…
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For the past few weeks I’ve been getting wave after wave of new matches on my trial eHarmony account, an account I’ve kept open just for kicks for the past year or so. Lately some of them have been sending me communication requests, but since I wasn’t paying I couldn’t respond to them, or see…
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I recently caught this article on the BBC: People’s health could be harmed by social networking sites because they reduce levels of face-to-face contact, an expert claims. A lack of “real” social networking, involving personal interaction, may have biological effects, he suggests. He also says that evidence suggests that a lack of face-to-face networking could…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
December 22, 2008 |
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I have finally arrived at the magic number of 500 posts! It’s hard to believe that I managed to stick it out even when there were so many times I was tempted to hang it up and stop blogging for good. But writing is in my blood evidently, and blogging has always been a good…
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One billion people on the Internet, 250 million from North America alone, and I yet I keep running into the same people over and over again. Which is bad enough unto itself, but on top of that they had to be ugly too. Really ugly. Bat droppings ugly. Nowhere is this more evident than when…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
April 25, 2007 |
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Blogging
I woke up late this morning, and not being in any hurry to get to work, I lazily surfed the Daily Blog Tips site, looking for advice and suggestions that I could apply to my own blog. I came across one post that linked to this article on how bloggers can use social networking sites…
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but there seems to be a lot of weirdos hanging out at these Internet dating sites. I think my first clue may have been when I got a “wink” from a transsexual interested in meeting me. Or perhaps it was the message I received (in broken English)…
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