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