Interviews with a number of Lebanese with more tolerant and accepting world views show that coming face to face and interacting with "the other" is critical.
You get to see people face to face and interact.
Half the pairs met face to face; the other half interacted online by instant message.
I realize social media helps brings the fans closer to you and the band, but I'd imagine the book signings must be cool to face-to-face interact with your fans as opposed to a Tweet, right?
Some of them don't know how to interact face to face.
One of the social benefits of bridge playing during its heyday was that it regularly caused people to interact, face to face, for hours at a time, something we tend not to do much anymore, now that so many popular amusements are both solitary and passive.
But to the attendees, many of whom rarely get a chance to interact face to face, it might as well have been a World's Fair.
Admittedly, we can only interact face to face with a handful of students but in realty this is not too different than a large on-campus lecture where we get to know only a very small percentage of the class.
By way of coming clean, I admit that although I am a people person who interacts face to face with folks new to my circles, as well as long time companions, I still spend a great deal of time on the internet.
These signposts were not only the physical, for example, lack of inquiry signs, but also lack of opportunity to interact face to face.
