John and Members,
I didn't see this post or I surely would have commented on it before now.
I believe you to be 100 percent correct John. This is an ideal medium to reach out to people. I note that as we get older and bolder that more and more people are on the bulletin boards like this one and on the IRC Chat channels like the two I operate. Email is the other great social program of our age.
The flip side of the coin is that people no longer know or reach out to their neighbors, neighborhood friends, Kids and their famlies, fellow church members, and on and on.
I only recognize this when I get in the big ol' motorhome and head out of town. I leave computers at home and only take a keyboard and a stand and a seat. I set up outside the motorhome in the RV parks and start playing and here come the people that DID NOT bring their laptops. We make a new bunch of friends. Some of the friends we have made this way go back years and years and we still travel around the country and visit each other.
LIfe is good. God Bless you all and thanks for being my friend
I love you all
Bill the Bebop