7th July, 2009 - Net Work If You Can Get It

I had the slightly disconcerting experience last night of meeting someone that I only had hitherto known through Facebook. He is a friend of several friends of mine, and we often find ourselves posting what I regard as highly witty and pertinent comments on other peoples statuses. Through this, our names have often appeared alongside one another, and I have felt that I have come to know him. After all, as a man, I rarely say more than 3 sentences to any one of my mates in any form of written communication (“How’s you? All well here. Beer soon?”), so my cyber friendship is probably just about as deep as it gets for a West of Scotland Man.

Anyway, we were both at a play that one of our mutual pals was in, and we were introduced. It was slightly awkward at first. I felt that we should both have had a keyboard so we could converse properly, but it soon became a little more natural. Social networking in the real world. It is very odd.

At one point I got close to a LOL.