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The Maiden Name Search ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" have been generalized from computing and telecommunication Maiden Name Search into the field of human interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" Maiden Name Search and what is considered "off-line" has become a subject of study Maiden Name Search in the field of sociology.[7]
The distinction between "on-line" Maiden Name Search 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, Maiden Name Search and "off-line" is reality (e.g. real life or meatspace). Maiden Name Search Slater states that this distinction is Maiden Name Search "obviously far too simple". To support his argument that the distinctions in relationships are more Maiden Name Search complex than a simple "on-line"/"off-line" Maiden Name Search dichotomy, he observes that some people draw no distinction between an "on-line" relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, such as being pen-pals. He also argues that even the telephone can be regarded Maiden Name Search as an "on-line" experience Maiden Name Search in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies (such as PDA and Maiden Name Search mobile Maiden Name Search telephone, television and Internet, and telephone and voice-over-IP) has made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' Maiden Name Search meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the first generation of Internet research".[7]
Slater asserts that there are legal and regulatory pressures Maiden Name Search to Maiden Name Search reduce Maiden Name Search the distinction Maiden Name Search between Maiden Name Search "on-line" and "off-line", with a "general tendency to assimilate online to Maiden Name Search offline and erase the distinction", Maiden Name Search stressing, however, that this does not mean that on-line relationships are being reduced to pre-existing off-line relationships. He conjectures that greater legal Maiden Name Search status may Maiden Name Search be assigned to on-line relationships (pointing out Maiden Name Search that contractual relationships, such as business transactions, on-line are already seen as just as "real" as their off-line counterparts), although Maiden Name Search he states it to be hard to imagine Maiden Name Search courts awarding Maiden Name Search palimony Maiden Name Search to people who have had a purely on-line Maiden Name Search sexual relationship. He also conjectures that an "on-line"/"off-line" distinction may be seen by people as "rather quaint and Maiden Name Search not quite comprehensible" within 10 Maiden Name Search years
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The distinction where "on-line" is seen as virtuality and "off-line" as reality is sometimes inverted, with "on-line" concepts Maiden Name Search being Maiden Name Search used to define and Maiden Name Search to explain "off-line" activities, rather than (as Maiden Name Search per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, trash cans, folders, Search Pinggolf and so forth) the other way around. Several cartoons by The New Yorker have satirized Maiden Name Search this. One includes Saint Peter asking for a user name and Maiden Name Search a password before admitting a Search For A Person S Birthday man into Heaven. Another Maiden Name Search illustrates "the off-line store" where "All items are actual size!", where shoppers may "Take it home as soon as you pay for it!", and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". |
