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To: ~digs who wrote (12)	6/22/2004 9:33:41 PM
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The BlackBerry and the Art of Geek Love technewsworld.com Flirtatious wireless messages have been around for a while. Japanese and Scandinavian teenagers pioneered the art of phone-screen chattering in the mid-1990s, and businesspeople in the United States quickly learned to put the BlackBerry -- a wireless e-mail device introduced five years ago by Research in Motion, a Canadian company -- to personal as well as professional use.

To: ~digs who wrote (12)	6/22/2004 11:48:17 PM
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"Age/Sex/Location: Uncovering the Social Cues in the Development of Online Relationships" tc.umn.edu by Whitty and Gavin. Cyberpsychology & Behavior. Vol. 4, No. 5, 2001. ---notes--- study is based on interviews w/ 60 people, ages 19-51 ... participants were questioned about the meanings of their online relationships (which were predominantly formulated in real time online chat rooms) finding: "ideals that are important in traditional relationships, such as trust honesty and commitment are just as important in online relationships, however.. the cues that signify these ideals vary" definition: CMR = computer mediated relating .. used to emphasize a more general concern w/ "all the varied interpersonal dimensions of interactions" CMR as a cueless, shallow, and hostile environment: -idea: rapidity w/ which we divulge intimate details about ourselves when getting to know someone online creates the likelihood of a situation that is at first exciting, but quickly fizzles out due to lack of broader knowledge and trust among one another -social content cues not available on line (such as non-verbal behaviors and the physical environment) ... leads to participants being less inhibited .. verbal aggression, blunt disclosure, and non-conforming behavior increase CMR as textually rich and emotionally fulfilling -becuz we don't meet face to face , more radical forms of relationships present themselves ... less likely to form immediate judgement based on age/gender/appearance -women able to be more sexually explicit w/out typical real-world characterizations and/or consequences .. no need to deal w/ men's more powerful physical presence -an online relationship is not absolutely restricted to CMR environment.. may blossom into phone/snail-mail/real world interaction -initial aggressiveness may dissipate over time as participants get to know each other overall user intent/expectation tends to define whether relationships formed online are emotionally fulfilling or simply shallow findings from the study: -some of the participants, as they progressed in their online communications with an individual, found that the internet became less exclusive as a medium for their interaction -ladder of trust: known screen-name --> known e-mail --> known phone number --> known address --> face to face meeting -many participants expected an eventual face to face encounter and thus worked that into their conversations .. those whom were unable to meet expressed disappointment -some people had poor face to face experience, found relationship was better off being net-based... continued relationship thereafter -men were often found to be more communicative online than otherwise .. put them at ease and gave them an ability to 'be themselves' .. social cues in real life leading towards introversion .. lack of social cues online causing 'liberation' -lack of non-verbal cues led to increase worry about dishonestly (i.e. unable to use eye contact as means of judging sincerity) -women participants admitted to lying in order to ensure safety ; men lied in order to create a deeper level of engagement w/ others -paradox: "computer users report less self-consciousness and awareness of being socially evaluated, which in turn allows intimate self-revelation while maintaining distance and personal space" "stranger-on-the-train theory" = people feel more comfortable disclosing things about themselves to someone that they will probably never meet again lying on the net can thus not always be thought of as deception.. it can be used to maintain anonymity, becuz of over-riding desire to discuss things on a deeper level ... a level that might otherwise be unattainable under real world circumstances