If somebody put a gun to my head, I could maybe remember 1/10th of this. =D
Well, I didn't remember all of it out of my own head -- I had to look some of it up. *g*
Now, there's just so much coming at everyone from so many different directions -- it's hard to slow down to the 1:1 level.
That's definitely how it is for me.
It's also that the path to getting to know someone has changed; it used to be that you would know someone's public face, then start talking to them and as your knowledge about them grew, so did the level of intimacy between you; and the more intimate you got, the more personal the information you'd be given. The two things built slowly off each other.
Now the knowledge level starts out sky-high as people (everywhere, not just journals -- facebook, my god) post all the details of their life for anyone to see, and I just have no social training at all to be able to cope with knowing that much about someone I don't know in the slightest, other than those intensely personal details. It has never failed to wig me out. How do you introduce yourself to someone when you already know how often they have sex, or whatever?
And not just how do you do it, but honestly, what's the point? My friends know me better than anyone; if everyone knows me as well as my friends because I tell everyone the same things, what's the difference between them and the rest of the world?
Anyway. Modern social norms make me feel old. *g*
And I remember getting mine from gloria v and there were these wacky things at the end of the set of tapes - like, clips of the show, over music? What the hell was THAT about. For years, I was baffled as to why anybody would want to do something so bizarre... =D
Heeeee. For me it was Pros tapes, when the woman who'd been steadily pimping me into Pros put a bunch of multi-fandom vids onto one tape to fill space. I was also completely baffled. The only one I remember is a Quantum Leap vid, because I was all "ooh Quantum Leap!" and then I got so bored I started reading something while waiting for the weird music thing to end so I could get to the next episode.
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Well, I didn't remember all of it out of my own head -- I had to look some of it up. *g*
Now, there's just so much coming at everyone from so many different directions -- it's hard to slow down to the 1:1 level.
That's definitely how it is for me.
It's also that the path to getting to know someone has changed; it used to be that you would know someone's public face, then start talking to them and as your knowledge about them grew, so did the level of intimacy between you; and the more intimate you got, the more personal the information you'd be given. The two things built slowly off each other.
Now the knowledge level starts out sky-high as people (everywhere, not just journals -- facebook, my god) post all the details of their life for anyone to see, and I just have no social training at all to be able to cope with knowing that much about someone I don't know in the slightest, other than those intensely personal details. It has never failed to wig me out. How do you introduce yourself to someone when you already know how often they have sex, or whatever?
And not just how do you do it, but honestly, what's the point? My friends know me better than anyone; if everyone knows me as well as my friends because I tell everyone the same things, what's the difference between them and the rest of the world?
Anyway. Modern social norms make me feel old. *g*
And I remember getting mine from gloria v and there were these wacky things at the end of the set of tapes - like, clips of the show, over music? What the hell was THAT about. For years, I was baffled as to why anybody would want to do something so bizarre... =D
Heeeee. For me it was Pros tapes, when the woman who'd been steadily pimping me into Pros put a bunch of multi-fandom vids onto one tape to fill space. I was also completely baffled. The only one I remember is a Quantum Leap vid, because I was all "ooh Quantum Leap!" and then I got so bored I started reading something while waiting for the weird music thing to end so I could get to the next episode.