A question of boundaries.
Dec. 2nd, 2003 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeIt's actually a serious poll, this. I really would like people's input.
You've been chatting with someone online, primarily through IM, for 4-6 weeks give or take; mostly platonic, with a touch of extremely non-serious flirting. Though it's been casual discussion for the most part, there have been exchanges of Deep Thoughts and personal foo, as IM conversations are prone to. You have gleaned through these conversations that your correspondent's life path has been a rocky one, to put it mildly, and in many ways still is, particularly at home. (Your correspondent is younger than you, though full adult even by USian standards.)
Suddenly, your correspondent falls off the net, and has not been seen in any of the usual haunts for several weeks, as best you can tell--this being someone who would be online for hours every day. You're more than a bit concerned on account of what you know of the other's precarious situation, though you have no reason to suspect anything has actually happened, other than this sudden vanishment. You have your correspondent's phone number, which was posted to a blog some weeks before the two of you "met".
[Poll #214042]
You've been chatting with someone online, primarily through IM, for 4-6 weeks give or take; mostly platonic, with a touch of extremely non-serious flirting. Though it's been casual discussion for the most part, there have been exchanges of Deep Thoughts and personal foo, as IM conversations are prone to. You have gleaned through these conversations that your correspondent's life path has been a rocky one, to put it mildly, and in many ways still is, particularly at home. (Your correspondent is younger than you, though full adult even by USian standards.)
Suddenly, your correspondent falls off the net, and has not been seen in any of the usual haunts for several weeks, as best you can tell--this being someone who would be online for hours every day. You're more than a bit concerned on account of what you know of the other's precarious situation, though you have no reason to suspect anything has actually happened, other than this sudden vanishment. You have your correspondent's phone number, which was posted to a blog some weeks before the two of you "met".
[Poll #214042]
