Fleshmet

I enjoyed this vocab word from the OCLC article, "Content, Not Containers."

Fleshmet And old but revived term. Fleshmet is the past tense of fleshmeet, which means to meet a person in the flesh rather than virtually. As in, "Have we fleshmet?" Gartner predicts that by 2012 "70% of the populations of developed countries will spend 10 times longer per day interacting with people in the e-world than in the physical one."

I have a group of friends from around the US that I met online when I was planning my wedding on the weddingchannel.com. We've kept in touch and spend quite a lot of time online keeping in touch. Now that I am also doing my Masters program online, and I telecommute for my job 100% of the time, I definitely fit into the group that spends 10 times longer per day interacting with people in the e-world! SO I guess I am at the forefront of the trend. :)