[ SECRET POST #2496 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2496 ⌋

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[khronos_keeper]

There's actually something to be said for the vastly different ways in which we communicate online vs. face to face. Interestingly enough, people feel more comfortable presenting more intimate information online than they would in person-- it's a mechanism to make up for the lack of other features of a conversation, like body language and vocal tone, etc.

Also, we have a habit of more finely editing our self presentation online-- you can control how you come across to the other person more strictly, because most of the time they have a much less complete picture of you as a person on line than in person. Again, the lack of body language, tone, the element of timeliness of response, etc.

So even though you might try to represent yourself as truthfully as you can in an online media, you can really only present a version of yourself, but not the version someone would see when actually meeting you. Basically, they met a different "you", and now they have a completely new set of characteristics about you that may or may not have fit with their version of you that they gleaned from online.

It's just the format of the medium that you interacted on. Maybe if you tried video chatting or phone calling, there would be less weirdness, because you would have a more complete picture of the other person, with the missing elements.

//social science communications nerd

[(Anonymous)]

Thankyou for that.

For me, I have a very visual sort of brain, and find reading people quite hard (like many nerds I suspect), and find crafting my words and grepping theirs so much more explicit than the confusing maelstrom of real time interaction. Plus everything you said.