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The ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" have been generalized from Job Search Nc computing and telecommunication into the field of human interpersonal relationships. The distinction between Job Search Nc what is considered "on-line" and what is considered "off-line" has Job Search Nc become a Job Search Nc subject of study in the field of sociology.[7]
The distinction between "on-line" and "off-line" is conventionally seen as the distinction between computer-mediated communication and face-to-face communication (e.g. face time), Job Search Nc respectively. "On-line" is virtuality, and "off-line" is reality (e.g. real life or meatspace). Slater states that this distinction is Job Search Nc "obviously far too simple". To support his argument that the distinctions in relationships are more complex than a simple "on-line"/"off-line" dichotomy, he observes Job Search Nc that Job Search Nc some people draw no distinction between an "on-line" relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, Job Search Nc such as being Job Search Nc pen-pals. He also argues that even the telephone can be regarded as Job Search Nc an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies Nzb Search (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television Bible Word Search Games and Internet, and telephone and voice-over-IP) has made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the sense that was employed by Job Search Nc the first generation of Internet research".[7]
Slater Job Search Nc asserts that Job Search Nc there are legal and regulatory pressures to Job Search Nc reduce the distinction between "on-line" and "off-line", with a "general tendency to Job Search Nc assimilate Job Search Nc online to offline and erase Job Search Nc the distinction", stressing, however, that this does Job Search Nc not mean that on-line Job Search Nc relationships are being reduced to pre-existing Job Search Nc off-line Job Search Nc relationships. Job Search Nc He conjectures that greater legal status may be assigned Job Search Nc to on-line relationships Job Search Nc (pointing out that contractual relationships, such as Spybot Search N Destroy business transactions, on-line are already seen as just as "real" as their off-line counterparts), although he states it to be Job Search Nc hard to imagine courts awarding palimony to What Are Some Good Search Engines people who have had a purely on-line sexual relationship. He also Job Search Nc conjectures that an "on-line"/"off-line" distinction may be seen by people as "rather quaint and not quite comprehensible" within 10 years
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The distinction where "on-line" is seen as virtuality and Job Search Nc "off-line" as reality is sometimes inverted, with "on-line" concepts being used to define and to explain "off-line" activities, rather Job Search Nc than (as per the conventions of the desktop Job Search Nc metaphor Job Search Nc with its desktops, trash cans, folders, and so forth) the other Job Search Nc way around. Several cartoons by The New Yorker have satirized this. One includes Job Search Nc Saint Peter asking for a user name and a password before admitting Job Search Nc a man Job Search Nc into Heaven. Another illustrates "the off-line store" where "All items are actual size!", where shoppers Job Search Nc may "Take it home as soon as you pay for it!", and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". Job Search Kansas City |
