Re: A good balance?
 

Yep, people can easily get the wrong end of the stick because there are no stresses in pronunciation to help carry the message.

There is an art to face-to-face conversation making, and this can easily be lost.

Re: A good balance?
 

Welcome to the future ....

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I dont see the robots anywhere :confused:

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Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there;):D

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Youre scaring me now..Anyway, :notopic:

Back on topic, if you balance the time you have on your hands between socializing and computer-izing, you should be fine.

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I'm on my computer + internet all day, my parents don't care because it's my career, which using a computer for so long (learning new things, helping other people, chatting with mates etc) makes you learn more, that's why I do it :p:

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:shocked: Is it me, or is this guy a total replica of me when I'm a little older. If only my parents didnt care..

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You wish :erm:

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You wanna come and say that to my face ??????????????????

/interlude/

Ahh thats better :D

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:rofl:

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I have to get out of the house atleast once in the day. If only to go to the shops, see a friend or whatever, I am 100% sure that we are in need of fresh air and staying in all day will just make you ill.

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Ill? I've been like this for about 1 year 3/4 and I'm fine, I hardly go outside to do anything :erm:

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I'd much rather the school told me if my boy was spending too much time on the computer.

I had my first computer when I was 3, but I don't feel like Ive used them too much, I don't NEED a computer.

Honest.

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The first thing I got was an amstrad when I was 7. That was the start of my decline, I preferred to write supermarket programs in BASIC than to go out on my bike :rolleyes: For most children, punishment is being grounded but for me it is to be sent outside :D

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I got my Beeb when I was 10, but before that it was me and a friend who used to show the teachers at school how to use the one they had there ... usually the complaint was 'it's broken' and the solution was 'plug the monitor in'. :D

My mum used to complain I was on it too much, but I don't think I used it as much as kids with PCs do now because there was a lot less you could do with it - no internet or networking of any kind, except at school when I was a bit older and it became fun to enslave other machines on the Econet or hack the school teletext system :angel:

I did once spend an entire evening on Elite, following a strategy printed in a magazine (Micro User, I think). I managed to get up to deadly and had military lasers on all sides. But that was unusual, even I had a headache after that. Football Manager was the other game me and my Beeb-friend used to play for hours at a time.