Wild Card

This was really hard for me to think of something to write about. All I can really think about is an incident with a relationship I had years ago. My boyfriend at the time used to give his phone number and other personal contact information out online to people he would meet. He was a big “gamer” and would meet people through various gaming websites and such and consider these people friends like any other person you might meet face to face. Well, I was raised not to hand out your information to people over the internet so this really bothered me. I didn’t think it was safe and some people (the females) were getting the wrong impression and thinking that he was interested. So he would get letters and calls from all sorts of people and it would always just really bother me, and we would get into fights about it. Had he really met these people, I think that I would have felt a little better about the situation. But since he was giving out information to people over the internet that he had never really met, I was really bothered by the situation. Besides the fact that I did not feel it was safe, some people were misinterpreting the situation. Some of the girls he would become “friends” with did not understand that he was just trying to be friends and nothing more. I think had he met them face to face they may have had a better understanding of his intentions. But since he was giving his number out over the internet they thought, “oh this guy must like me to be doing this.” He had been doing it for years (he was a little older than me so had been exposed to the internet longer). I just think as the times changed and the internet became more of a place for predators and the such he should have taken more care and not handed out any personal information. Of course since he had been doing this for years before we met, I could not change his mind. It was a constant source of irritation for me, but we never saw eye to eye on it. It was really the insecurity of the internet that bothered me. Who knows what type of people he was really handing his information out to. He would barely “know” them before he did this too, sometimes the same day he “met” them. Without having a face to face interaction with someone I do not see how you could feel safe enough to give them that sort of contact information. Even meeting someone face to face now a days you may be skeptical about giving them any sort of contact information right off the bat.

Postman this week talked about how we rely so much on science and look it for answers it can no provide. How we forget to use our logic and intuition. I think this is a perfect case of that. He wasn’t using any common sense when giving out his information, and more than once it got him into a little bit of a tough spot.

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