Ever since the internet boom, people can chat, take classes and even meet people online, so it is no surprise that there are people who have made friendships that exist exclusively online. However, I am not one of those people. In my opinion, cyber relationships are tricky since there is lingering uncertainty about these relationships despite methods to ensure the safety of the creation of these cyber relationships. As cyber relationships have taken a massive hold of society, it is apparent that there are methods and measures to ensure safer means of creating a cyber relationship, but there is still a level of uneasiness with the unknown, especially since there are dangerous people lurking cyberspace where they may wear a friendly and assuring mask to lower one’s guard, lulling a person into a false sense of security and ease. Then afterwords, there are still dangerous things that could happen, even if it is a relationship in cyberspace, afterall, what can happen in cyberspace. This is for the context of certain situations in regards to friendships that are existent only in cyberspace, so this view does not apply to all relationships that exist in cyberspace since I have taken online classes before, and have used Blackboard for its online chat rooms, making peer relationships as well as student-teacher relationships, as I have with the blogs, emails, and yahoo messenger used for this particular class.
Still, exclusively cyber relationships are not for me. In addition to my distrust of these type of friendships, relationships that exist solely within cyberspace do not really work for me, especially on a long term basis, which is what I would like within my friendships. I personally like to have face-to-face interaction within my personal relationships. Computer-Mediated Communication is great for supplementing the relationships that I already have, especially when we are too busy or too far away to meet, but there is something about face-to-face relationships that seems unfiltered and unhindered by faulty internet connections, and the flat and sometimes smudgy computer screen. I am not opposed to these cyber relationships since others’ perspectives are different, but for me in general, relationships exclusive to cyberspace does not work for me.
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