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