About Joking

...especially joking here, in a blog, or in a comment.

Joking should be handled very carefully, even more in the blogosphere and the photo-presenting areas of the net. You never know how the other part feels about your joke, cos they can´t see your grin, your wink, they just read your sometimes, well, yes: rude writing.

I myself seem to have lost a valued contact on flickr only recently because of, I suggest, one of my more "real-life" commenting and joking. It´s been a pity and a shame. I regret having lost her. I´m not sure, it could also have been a misconnection or disconnection rather, on flickr´s side, though I feel the former could be true more...

I´ve become very very considerate and careful about my online jokes during the 10 years that I´ve been with this. It all started with the AOL chatrooms which were a big enhancement to my life, and now continues with blogger, twitter, flickr. But in "Safe Mode".

I count my online friendships as being too precious as to risk any blockings and such .