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The distinction between "on-line" and "off-line" is conventionally seen as the distinction between computer-mediated communication and How To Search A Last Name face-to-face How To Search A Last Name communication (e.g. face time), respectively. "On-line" is virtuality, and "off-line" is reality (e.g. How To Search A Last Name real life or meatspace). Slater states that this distinction How To Search A Last Name is "obviously far too simple". To support his argument that the distinctions in relationships are more complex than a simple "on-line"/"off-line" dichotomy, he observes that some people draw no distinction between an "on-line" relationship, How To Search A Last Name such How To Search A Last Name as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, such How To Search A Last Name as being pen-pals. He also argues that even the telephone can be regarded as an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, and telephone and voice-over-IP) How To Search A Last Name has made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the first generation of Internet research".[7]
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