CNN wrote:
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A man and a woman sit side by side in a New York cafe, drinking beer, sharing food, and not saying a word. Instead of chatting, they are typing on a laptop about the tunes played through a shared iPod.
"Realizing that communicating via typing was far more comfortable ... we conducted ... our date without speaking. We traded headphones back and forth and typed and ordered beer and wine and more food ... The waitress thought we were crazy," wrote singer Amanda Palmer on her Web site.
[...]
Coined by bloggers responding to a column on the online version of "Wired" magazine, couple-surfing describes "netaholics" or "infomaniacs" who surf alongside each other -- doing together what used to be seen as a solitary activity.
It can make cyber-love more playful and informative than the caches of steamy e-mails left in the late 1990s.
[...]
"Our new relationship was often the subject of my LJ (blog) entries and I would often say things in there that I wouldn't tell him to his face," writes Kathryn.
Another couple -- married for 12 years -- say that for a while they communicated through blogs without ever discussing their feelings face to face.
"Realizing that communicating via typing was far more comfortable ... we conducted ... our date without speaking. We traded headphones back and forth and typed and ordered beer and wine and more food ... The waitress thought we were crazy," wrote singer Amanda Palmer on her Web site.
[...]
Coined by bloggers responding to a column on the online version of "Wired" magazine, couple-surfing describes "netaholics" or "infomaniacs" who surf alongside each other -- doing together what used to be seen as a solitary activity.
It can make cyber-love more playful and informative than the caches of steamy e-mails left in the late 1990s.
[...]
"Our new relationship was often the subject of my LJ (blog) entries and I would often say things in there that I wouldn't tell him to his face," writes Kathryn.
Another couple -- married for 12 years -- say that for a while they communicated through blogs without ever discussing their feelings face to face.
Couples? Do you ever communicate via electronics when you are in the same building? The ex used to get on IRC and start messaging me when we were in the same room. I generally wound up saying "You know, I'm right here" and then she'd get pissy. A lot of asinine things made her pissy. I once sent a PM to Flea (our computers are at opposite ends of the house) and she yelled back "I knew it'd come to this!" but it really hasn't. Then again, she's not online much at home so anything I ask would have to wait until she's at work the next day to respond.
By the way, I'm not talking solely about a mutual computer experience such as MMORPGs where the game is the experience itself. But rather if you were in the same room playing some MMORPG with just one another and "spoke" in text rather than speech.
If you sit in the same room and use TeamSpeak to communicate, you have stranger issues than I could imagine
