Games
I enjoy some online games; however I still believe that certain games are better as board games than they are on the computer. For instance, I have always loved to play Scrabble; I am a very wordy person. I only seem to enjoy this game as an in person board game. As an online game, I find it a bit flat. I don't like playing card games online and I really don't like playing with other people that I don't know online.
My son loves to play his video games online. He loves to play some of those really cool war like games online with his friends. He just hooks his Xbox 360 up through the computer wires and he is off playing with his friends, just like that. Honestly, he does play mostly with his friends; however, he also plays with lots of other people that he doesn't know.
I think this is one thing that I am yet to understand about the internet world. I really can't understand why people want to deal with people that they don't know online. I mean, I am a people person, but I like my people to have faces, eyes, arms and legs. I like to see them and be able to tell what type of person they are. Online interactions to me seem to be really lacking something. You can never look the person in the face and tell what their intent is. It is very difficult to tell if someone is scamming you online. The main clues that you would use to determine this in person are not available to you in the internet world. Things like tone of voice, facial expression and eye contact, are not available to you when you are dealing with an unknown person online. This aspect of the online world is really intimidating to me.
I guess I like to be able to size up a person and know their intent, and this is not something that I seem to be able to do from my computer desk. For me I will still continue to play online games, but I will be very careful not to interact with strangers on my computer. Not now and not ever!