Yes, I do enhance the experience with real-life contacts, but online contact for me, much of the time, is more "real" because I'm not impaired or disabled there--I actually have an advantage in that I have to process data almost exclusively visually anyway, so seeing it rather than hearing it seems perfectly natural.
As for people playing personas--they do in real life, too. They just have to work harder in more directions. Some people are no more "real" face to face than they are in print.
All very good points, and points that I -- to my embarrassment -- was really thinking about while muddling my way through my own reaction to the initial comment, and my reactions as well to online interactions over the years.
With you, for instance, I know better than to do the "no, wait, this is long email, I'll just pick up the phone and call", which I would otherwise do given long years of contact.
And, fwiw, that's how almost all of my jumps from online interaction to phone and eventually real life interaction started -- with my impatience <wry g>.
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Date: 2004-12-15 03:30 pm (UTC)As for people playing personas--they do in real life, too. They just have to work harder in more directions. Some people are no more "real" face to face than they are in print.
All very good points, and points that I -- to my embarrassment -- was really thinking about while muddling my way through my own reaction to the initial comment, and my reactions as well to online interactions over the years.
With you, for instance, I know better than to do the "no, wait, this is long email, I'll just pick up the phone and call", which I would otherwise do given long years of contact.
And, fwiw, that's how almost all of my jumps from online interaction to phone and eventually real life interaction started -- with my impatience <wry g>.