public & cyber space

Our communication and conenctions are increasingly growing in cyber space, where does that leave our public space, or our physical connections? Are our face to face meetings and discussions suffering? How are our conenctions in cyberspace effecting what we expect from our meetings in physical space? Lower or higher expectations? Lower expectations because we have found solice in the web and the kind of 'personal' connections that we can make. If you felt like a misfit before you can now 'connect' with others that share your interests. Perhaps this is what was considered an internet addiction in the past, when it may have just been a medium that fascillitated the social connecting of self perceived 'misfits'.

When we date, relate, and share online, what is happening to our public spaces? Do we begin to leave them up for grabs? Are we looking to the internet and cyberspace for our working definitions of love, money, social behavior, entertainment? This is not to say that the internet is a bad thing and is destorying out society... but to question how much of a role it is playing in de-socializing us from our physical connections.