Social Skills? Who needs 'em!

It has occurred to me that pretty much all of my online friends began with a single comment I would of never made IRL.

Sometimes the start was awkward. Like with my dearly interwed Dunhamnator.

I left this review on her story

I hate you.

Okay well that's not fair. I don't hate you. I'm pretty sure you knew what I meant though.

Amazing.

Huh...six months ago if you would of told me I would be calling Jori pairings amazing I would have laughed you out of town.

But hey, here we are. Me telling you that you just killed me inside and you...well...reading it.

So...you apologized. Wow...our first fight.

Did I just type that? Looking back it looks weird...really weird. I feel creepy now.

I'm sorry...for being creepy.

I should stop typing now.

 

Surprisingly she replied with quite simply

 

Let me love you

 

We've been in touch ever since.

 

Or maybe that's just a crazy random happenstance you say?

 

Alright. Tumblr. flockofsiegels.

 

I happen across the blog and I read "I like puns related to my name"

Well I like puns.

 

I left a series of messages with as many puns as I could think of for Brooke, ending with Brooke-back Mountain.

 

She replied to the last one saying it is the best one she's heard yet, now it's the title of her blog.

 

We follow each other and have regular conversations.

 

Still not believing me?

 

playingtragic: Obsessed fan message. Now we keep in touch and I help her with writer's block

 

 anteredono: joined forces to take over the world. Now we chat*

 

 pmaziggy: same as anteredono

 

 Sax freaking Carr: Fell asleep, woke up to his podcast, got scared and made a flipping facebook post about it! Now I'm the superfan and we'd do anything to help the other out.

 

You have to face it, the Internets aren't normal.

The people who live on it's tangled web aren't normal.

 

A creepy comment isn't always creepy online. It's charming.

Someone who is odd and talks to themselves in a review isn't a reason to call the nut police, it's a reason why you like their reviews.

 

This is why older generations fear for the new ones. They blame our horrid actions on social media.

 

I can't blame them.

It certainly helped.

But I don't think all of us are that bad.

 

Those mentioned above, and many others like Mystery and Blake T**, I find your quirks to be just that.
Quirky.
I like that someone can laugh at my weak joke. That despite my creepy review she saw I meant no harm.

 

Maybe my first guess was wrong, perhaps the Internet hasn't warped these people's minds into something worse, but something better. Maybe there is a point in spending your days surfing through the world wide web.

 

Maybe we're all better off.

 

 

 

*Chats about pirates perhaps...*hint hint read this http://specificness.blogspot.com/search/label/pirates*

**Blake has been following since like my first week on twitter and I have no clue why. I guess I'm funny and charming...