Comments on: How Are Your Online Relationships Different From Your Offline Relationships?

By: beverly

beverly — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:10:10 +0000

I am 55 and met my husband online 10 years. It was love at first online! We are very happily married. A great way to meet someone.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:40:20 +0000

usa,
What a lovely story. I didn’t meet my wife online, yet we did marry in three weeks from our meeting each other.

By: usa newspapers news

usa newspapers news — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:48:40 +0000

I met my wife on Net and we carried this relationship to real-life and we are married at the moment.Offline relationships can be a dream of you but one day you see it is true or not.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:51:06 +0000

Jill,
These are great stories. I can only imagine the joy of finding your loved one this way. How amazing. Thanks so much for adding your thoughts.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:27:09 +0000

When I became single with 2 really small kids, I went on a mom’s group somewhere. I liked one woman’s post so I emailed her directly and told her I was really in need of a penpal and was she interested. She said yes, she happened to be a military wife in Japan with some kid issues. We struck up a great friendship that could be active when we had time and quiet when we didnt.

The other great one was that I asked a guy for business help when I saw on Yahoo personals that he was in internet marketing. 8 months later I ended up marrying him .. http://www.jimandjillforever.com ….

Online or offline, relationships fill voids if you are open and they are open…

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:17:39 +0000

Dallas,
True. I simply see the internet/blogosphere as a massive opportunity to build relationships. And, since my business has been built by building mutually beneficial relationships, all the better.

By: Dallas Bienes Raices

Dallas Bienes Raices — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:56:55 +0000

I guess if it works for some people, why not do it, hey!!!a lot people find their other half on net.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:53:49 +0000

Mother Earth,
Thanks. Being human is certainly something that binds us all together.

Heroes,
I certainly think it can be. But is there a point where one transcends the other?

Living,
Varied, sure. Yet still I’ve found commonality between myself and the people I’ve met through my blog. That’s the really exciting part; varied commonality.

By: Living Room Furniture

Living Room Furniture — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:49:30 +0000

I think online relationships, because of the fact that no geographical barriers exist and since there is no constraint imposed by distance, are so much more varied. They will be so much more varied than the relationships you can develop in your neighborhood, school, office, city etc.

By: Heroes Online

Heroes Online — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:07:15 +0000

I just saying my opinion, in the online relationships you can talk in that moment what ever you need to, so from my point of view is more efficient.

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By: Mother Earth

Mother Earth — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:48:18 +0000

Showing the human side – I like that!

Mother Earth
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By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:36:25 +0000

Mother Earth,
I know what you mean. Perhaps you want to remind them that people do business with people, not businesses and that it’s safe, and often helpful, to show a bit of your human side – even in a sterile, corporate environment. All-in-all, it’s about relationships. And if you don’t relate, you’ll get passed by.

Carol,
That’s sweet. Just found an old high school friend on Facebook myself. Scoble’s right, the social media is shrinking the globe.

By: Carol L. Skolnick, Clear Life Solutions

Carol L. Skolnick, Clear Life Solutions — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:09:05 +0000

A blog entry got me back in touch with my best friend from high school and early adulthood – we’d had a falling out and hadn’t spoken in many years. Read it and weep (tears of joy): “Repairing the Irreparable” at http://soulsurgery.blogspot.co.....rable.html

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By: Mother Earth

Mother Earth — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:26:27 +0000

I am working with 2 clients right now who want to have me write ordinary website like ( not to imply that all websites are ordinary or anything! ) copy without getting too personal – in otherwords they want to maintain privacy.

What I hear them saying strikes me as so ordinary and so clone-like or homogonized

I find it very hard to keep what I love about who they are and the services they provide so sterile.

If I am going to represent them in the way I do best I am going to write about them as a remarkable person making anyone who reads it WANT to do business with them

none of that blah, blah blah or ” look good ” posturing type stuff

blogger or not isn’t that how we distinquish ourselves in what it is we do ??

Hi Phil!!!!

Mother Earth
http://www.bestwellnessconsultant.com

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:07:09 +0000

Mother Earth,
I couldn’t agree more. It seems to me that we’re all searching for real, honest relationships. And that’s what we’re finding in the blogosphere.

Phil,
I loved David’s Face Behind the Blog Series. It let me get to know a number of bloggers better. Like I had no idea that Randa Clay sang opera. What an amazing thing to learn about someone.

And it’s fun to take the blog relationships offline. I’ve met so many amazing people – you included, my friend. And thank God neither of us did any butt sniffing…

Valik,
I certainly think that’s true in a number of cases. Yet, at the same time, most of the bloggers I’ve gotten to know are exactly the people the portray themselves as on their blogs. Could just be the type of people I’m drawn too and who are drawn to me.

Have you had instances where that’s not been the case?

By: Valik Rudd

Valik Rudd — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:02:12 +0000

For me, offline relationship is always more real, no fake involved. Everything the person says or do I can judge it by my eyes. So, online relationship is not as deep as offline relationship.

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:05:12 +0000

Online, bloggy, relationships often get deeper, faster, because of the ability to share in a real way. I’ve found that it’s often the little things that we don’t know about the person that really draw us in, not just the topics they write about. It’s why David Airey’s Face Behind the Blog Series was such a rousing success…Folks crave that personal touch that often takes a backseat to conversational topics on the blog.

Thankfully, it’s possible to “take the blog off the blog” and meet folks in person, and then really get to know them. That way when you read their blog posts, you can hear them reading them, or better yet, see them saying them to you, like a one-on-one conversation.

Offline, I find that things are more superficial, at least at first. It’s like the whole butt sniffing that dogs do. Gotta make sure the other person is somehow “worthy” of our attention. It takes longer to “get deep” but once you do, usually you’re in for the long haul.

By: Mother Earth

Mother Earth — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:32:30 +0000

I like the comment about letter writing, i never thought of it before but the art of writing letters is so lost. I treasured those who took a moment to write back – they were kindred. I too was a letter writer

with blogging and even online community so many more ” get” that taking a moment to read, peek, write back, comment opens up many more doors than ever before possible. It makes the writing part much more rewarding

Letter writing was private – this medium is public – very visual and when someone is real in that realm I find it intoxicating

it makes my hungry for more

Mother Earth
http://www.bestwellnessconsultant.com