Having an online mode paired
with meatspace play helps!
Not exact matches
I feel like meeting someone in
meatspace that I've developed a relationship
with online would be a lot like having a dream where your mind has placed a really familiar object in a place that it's not supposed to be... like your car on a boat, or your mom in a space suite.
# 6 because doing deals in «
meatspace» can be really intimidating, especially if you've only spent time communicating
with that person via text (email, twitter, etc.).
You can sit on your couch and watch football instead of interacting
with people in the flesh, and if the course of history has taught you anything, it's that we crave ever more elaborate methods to avoid interacting in
meatspace.
If you have staff or volunteers working
with people in the real world (
meatspace) rather than the virtual world, you can get them to gather names as well.
Or, they suggest ways you might «connect»
with this person in
meatspace, being careful in the process to say «Please contact and interact
with [name] in ways that are peaceful, non-violent, and in no way cause any impairment to the integrity or availability of [company] data, programs, systems, or information.»
The internet was pretty obviously in competition
with a few obvious industries at that point — like
meatspace book stores — but caught (and is still catching) others off guard: cable TV, movie companies, music companies, FedEx / USPS / UPS, movie theaters, desktop software makers, book publishers, magazine publishers, shoe / apparel stores, newspaper publishers, video game console makers, libraries, grocery stores, real estate agents, etc. etc....