With friends/acquantainces/family, I know who is likely to approach me with certain types of ideas/questions/concerns. Similarly, as I go through life, and problems come up, I know who to go to with different situations.
Here, I come to learn. It is more like adventurous travel. I don't come here to learn specific things, although I'll frequently use searchyc to track something down.
In other words, it isn't that people here are different from people that I know personally in X and Y ways, it is that the nature of the interaction is fundamentally very different.
[+] [-] colins_pride|17 years ago|reply
Here, I come to learn. It is more like adventurous travel. I don't come here to learn specific things, although I'll frequently use searchyc to track something down.
In other words, it isn't that people here are different from people that I know personally in X and Y ways, it is that the nature of the interaction is fundamentally very different.