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The Lyrics Search ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" Lyrics Search have been generalized from computing and telecommunication Lyrics Search into the field of human interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" and what is considered "off-line" has become a subject of study in the field Lyrics Search of sociology.[7]
The distinction between "on-line" and "off-line" is conventionally seen as the distinction between computer-mediated communication and face-to-face communication (e.g. face time), respectively. "On-line" is virtuality, and "off-line" is reality (e.g. real Reverse Phone Number Search life or meatspace). Slater states that this distinction Lyrics Search is "obviously far too simple". To support his argument that the distinctions in relationships Free Obituary Search are more Lyrics Search complex than a simple "on-line"/"off-line" dichotomy, he observes that some people draw no distinction between an Best Search Engines "on-line" Lyrics Search relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, such Lyrics Search as being pen-pals. He also argues that even the telephone can be regarded Lyrics Search as an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and Search For Restaurant that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies Lyrics Search (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, and telephone and Lyrics Search voice-over-IP) has Lyrics Search made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' Lyrics Search meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the first Lyrics Search generation of Internet research".[7]
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