From: dmonger@yabbs
To: Cat@yabbs
Subject: re: hmmm
Date: Tue Mar  8 22:53:32 1994

In message hmmm, Cat said:
> Th thing that
> really freaked me out was, if I were to keel over and die say, tomorrow, 
> you'd have no way of really knowing what happened to me. You would 
> probably notice I wasn't around (since I'm on so much, I'm sure you'd noti
> ce, but you'd never really KNOW what happened. Creppy huh? Kinda makes me 
> feel a bit obsolete. :) Hmm. I apologize for the morbicity of this post, I 
> was just thinking weird thoughts tonight. Sometimes I feel like a shadow., 

but how much does this differ from any sort of nonfacetoface (all one word)
relationship?  Friends on the phone, pen-pals, email ... you never really
know what's going on in their lives, or what's happening to them unless they
tell you ... its not just a symptom of the "cyber-community".

-peter