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To: Fuzzy who wrote (39848)	3/7/1999 9:44:00 AM
From: William Brotherson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50264

Good Morning Everyone!! Well it's Sunday, and I'm fairly sure at least one or two of you are asking yourselves, "What is wb doing putting up a story on Sunday?" Just as the day I decided to stop being apathetic concerning all of the negativity going around on the net and started doing something to try and change things for the better, well, I'm at it again! Sunday has always being a very slow day anyway, so I have decided to chew up some bandwidth with my thoughts about a myriad of different topics. Now these posts on Sundays will be of considerable length so I give fair warning. Now why is Bill starting this? I have a routine 7 days a week that I do not deviate from. The only day that matters (to this post is Sunday). I get up every morning around 3:30 - 4:00 am, go down to the local Perkin's restaurant (open 24 hours, thank heavens) for my morning coffee, and read the Sunday paper from front to back. This morning, an article from the Associated Press lit the fire, in particularly, after this last week, which made me decide to try this and see how it goes. I will not be telling anything new to anyone out there (for the most part), I will just be bringing things to the forefront of thought as a reminder about life. The article today was about the internet. For myself (and I do include myself in these next statements) and an untold number of others out there, the internet, and mainly these BB's and chat rooms, are the last bastion of social contact with the world open to them. For the most part, everyone has a happy and uplifting experience out here in "Cyberworld". Where else can a person (this is about myself) learn about different cultures conversing with people from Spain, Africa, Japan. Make meaningful friendships with a woman and her family from TN, A millionaire from CA, a construction worker from TX, or a fellow firefighter from Australia, yet not be overly fond of his own neighbor. The opportunities are boundless as evidenced by last week wondrous response when I needed help. But, happy endings are not always the case. Sometimes they end in tragedy as is the case in the article. It is about a young French woman who got involved over the internet with a person in Detroit. They arranged a meeting where she flew from Paris to Toronto, had to be smuggled into the US, met privately (and to me this was key to the problem) for a couple of days, and now she is dead. Why????? Now the article does not say he murdered her, but he definitely had a hand in her death. After these few days of meeting (and sex), he just threw her out like the garbage. She informed him she would commit suicide so he drives her to the end of his "DRIVEWAY" and just leaves her there. A lot of people think that the internet is just a fantasy land to be used for only role playing, but I say to everyone today, the internet is a real world unto itself just as the world you walk around in each day and must be treated as such. If you would not do something to your neighbor, don't do it on the net. What ever precautions you take in everyday life, take on the net. What offends you personally every day, do not stand for on the net and fight against it at every opportunity. I have my own set of rules concerning the net and my conduct there just as each of you have and they govern my actions therein. I am zeroing in one specific rule that I have which I will not break no matter the temptation. "First Meetings" (which I already have a few scheduled this year that I am really looking forward to). Now, being the type of person I am I love meeting new people, yet I still take a simple precaution as I test the waters so to speak, I will meet no one privately at a first meeting. This is for both of ours safety and peace of mind. All first meetings must be done in a public forum, until some trust is grown and our individual differences (which is important) are understood and accepted. As in the real everyday world it is those differences that make things interesting, they also apply in "Cyberworld". Now I am not saying to be afraid to meet with people but just use common sense precautions as they will not hurt or offend anyone (might have saved the young lady in the article) and still allow for lifelong friendships to blossom and mature. OK, enough for today. So what do you think? I am open to all comments. Is Bill spitting into a hurricane? Is this worthwhile? Or is Bill just getting very full of himself in his crusade for something better. I would really like to hear truthful thoughts particularly from those that do not like this. PM me, E-Mail, whatever, but I would like some feedback. William Brotherson