So.I was talking to Odysseus and he said...

I'm gonna coin the phrase "Robot Camera".

Yeah, I know Craig Ferguson over on the Late Late Show was talking to "Robot Camera" but heck Eric the  Red discovered the US and I don't hear folks  calling our country the United States of Eric the Red.

(Note from our local history buff ----Skralings or something like that actually are the reason why we don't call America the Newfoundland.  The Skarlings. Now I don't know how to spell their name and I got stuff to do. But our history buff here thought taking the time to put this in the post was a grand idea. Anyway)

So

I'm sticking a "flag" in it. It's miiiiinnee. Proceed to ignore it into oblivion or use it to excess. But if you do? Yah. It's got my little explorer flag it in.

Robot Camera 

noun (could be proper or common depending on if you are talking about your own, specific person or the general population.)

It's not a mean spirited term (before someone starts using it mean). It's a term for the image that you form of  person who you are in a "relationship" with via electronic media. Could be over the internet. Could via a tee vee.  But it's finally a term for that person that you consider friend but who you don't know their real name or address or you're not really sure if you even know what they look like. The image you see either through the computer screen or minds eye. Finally a term that deals with the phenomenon that happens here in the virtual world or in entertainment industry or any fandom where the image becomes a part of the viewers world.

Used in a sentence.

"I've been talking to this guy forever but all he is to me really  is a "robot camera". I don't really know him. It's all good. A way to scratch an itch without the guilt. Calorie free ice cream."

(Okay Gentle Reader? Listen up. I do not think of you as a "robot camera". Okay. Just so you know. But you have to admit that there are those relationships that arise from the strange realities of the internet or television/entertainment/writer's fandom that have blurred or in some cases full out stomped on the transitions one goes through to get to the point of calling someone friend.

You know. The kind of friend who would tell someone their mustache is stupid and they should shave it off.  I don't even have that relationship with WB lol JJB. And we've, well let's say we've been through alot in our relationship. We have to be pretty durn irritated to say, "You look stupid." to each other. 

Oh and while there are elements of the voyeurs and "spiders" here, the term when used as a common noun is much broader in scope. It also speakes to the  true feeling of friendship one person can have for the other even if they've never laid eyes on them.  Which is not something that occures that often in real world friendships. I do believe folks can be friends without actually meeting first. Thing is it's not just not lol real common. In order to be friends you usually see 'em too. It's how you come in contact with them in the first place.

But I'm sure YRMV (Your Relationships May Vary), this is JMHO (Just My Humble Opinion)

Well Guess you had to be there... Gotta go muck the pens. Ann

Pssst Or

So... What's next. Even I'm not sure about where this goes next. LOL.