The Internet is Helping Us All To Find New Friends
In these days of high stress, financial and otherwise, we all have our favorite ways of enjoying ourselves. We all have our favorite hobbies. For some of us it’s watching T.V. – sports, entertainment shows, reality shows, and so on. And for others, it’s doing some sort of activity such as novel writing software, photography, running, or even bird watching.
It probably goes without saying that it’s almost always more fun to share your hobby with a friend than to do it alone for instance, even a simple solitary activity like running, is a lot more fun when doing it with a friend. And some hobbies, such as tennis, pretty much require that two or more people be involved.
Sixty, seventy, eighty years ago, finding a friend who enjoyed the same things you did was simple, because everyone in a community grew up together. But, as a society, we have all gradually moved away from each other. Childhood friends now live on opposite coasts. It’s not uncommon for family members to see each other only on major holidays because everyone lives so far from each other.
All of this makes finding people who love to do the things that you do harder to find.
But then the Internet came along. And, conversely from keeping people apart from each other, as many social observers once feared, the Internet has instead become a great resource to bring persons of similar interests together. Over the past eight or so years, literally thousands of discussion groups have sprung up all over the Internet, begun by people with an interest or hobby that they loved and showing their participants steps to writing a book. Somewhere in the course of starting their discussion group, most of them discovered that they were not alone in their love of their hobby.
But furthermore, in what has surprised many people, their common interest in their hobby has spilled over and continued into the real world and created genuine off-line friendships. Friendships that in the good old days never would have happened.
This, more than most things, goes to demonstrate just how much of a communal animal that man truly is and how much we all need one another to make life enjoyable for us.
Chris Edwards is webmaster and writer for author related subjects such as writing children’s book.
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