john, whihch john is this anyway, i know after posting this, but its hard to tell on the site :)

i agree with you about the level of intimacy you can have through web relationships although there are some pretty cool things that happen. i had lunch with a friend a few weeks ago and had been reading his blog prior to our meet, and the week before christmas had two people come visit from saint louis and he had read my blog and me his. what was cool about both meetings was we already knew where to begin, one a person i had known for a while the other brand new. but for me its the touch that makes the intimacy work, i wrote a piece about it a while back. i have had many conversations with people about this topic but i still come back to the touching thing. when we actually feel a person, see their eyes, hair, posture, etc we know them in ways you can never achieve over the net. i am not sure we will ever be able to replace that i mean touch. i think its how we are created.