F-O-X

In the movie we watched in class "You've Got Mail" there were so many likenesses to what we've been studying, it's almost as if they made the movie for our class. The biggest thing that I got out of it was that you always have to be aware of who you are talking to online. The identity subject is still one that escapes our grasp as an online society. Nobody ever really knows who they want to be. In the movie, the two characters talk over email...Kathleen Kelly actually talks about how much she wants to put down Joe Fox because of all the trouble he is causing her, without even realizing that it is he on the other end. Everybody knows the saying "It's a small world" But with the internet...it's become a lot smaller.
One can never be too careful with a new person online, especially when it comes to meeting in person. Both parties in the movie were very timid to the fact of actually meeting one another. Until push came to shove both parties were comfortable being relatively unknown and impersonal. But just like the cat, curiosity killed their deal and they had to meet. The irony is that the second person there always has the first judgement to make, do they stay, do they go? Luckily for us Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan followed their online hearts and not their online bank accounts.