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Oh.
I guess because I wouldn't do that... simply log off.. on someone, I can't imagine why anyone would think that's acceptable or an out.
There are in fact real people on the other side of the screen.
People forget that it seems.
It isn't that people forget...
Those of us who have straddled the "real world" and the "online world" perhaps have a more unique perspective that those who fall solidly on one side of the divide or the other.
I can distinctly remember calling people on the phone and having them hang up on me before the advent of caller ID allowed them to simply not pick up.
A couple of weeks ago I got stood up for a date. The person texted me ten minutes before she was meant to arrive with a reason of having discovered she really wanted to concentrate on dating someone else.
Did the person on the phone hanging up on me forget that I was a real person? Did the woman forget I was real when she could have told me the night before when we confirmed or date, or any time up until I was already waiting?
I don't think it has anything to do with forgetting. It has everything to do with being scared that those insecurities we all battle each and every day are true.
It is far easier to just ignore facing them than to own up to the fact you are going to perform an action that has to potential to cause harm.
Technology continues to make it easier and easier to have to see the potential consequences.
<steps off the soap box>