Bring on the connection: in response to "Online Chatting"

This whole connection through the internet thing is interesting to me. I'm not exactly sure how I feel because I really do value that person-to-person contact, but, like you said, some contact seems to be better than none. I like knowing what my hallway and classroom buddies are doing, and that quick connection with the occaisional coffee-date friend is nice.

My real dilemma is this: were we made to keep contact with those people we wouldn't normally have kept in contact with? Is it necessary to keep up on the little things? Are we created to have such stretched relational capacities? Has God blessed us with this complete (?) connect-ability, or has the Adversary confused us?

I don't think there are easy answers to any of the above questions and I'm trying to figure out how to balance answering them and living within them.

What I know I do love, however, is the accessibility the internet gives me to those I definitely should be connected to--like my family. Thus, I uphold the facebooking, emailing, texting, and chatting with the ones I do long to see, touch, smell, know. So, when it comes to you all, my lovely family, bring on the connection!