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The vagaries of the written versus (live) word...
Chat forums are are the perfect venue to display the weakness, the inability of words written to convey the intent and meaning of what a poster is trying to say.
In a face to face conversation or even on a radio or telephone, perhaps 30 - 50% more information is transmitted. Tone of voice, facial expressions and body language is the 30% missing, and that percentage is dang well high enough to cause misinterpretation.
I try and take a deep breath and count to 20 (ten isn't high enough) before I decide whether or not a questionable response is really what it "seems" to be. The power of the cyber pen makes many feel vulnerable. A public forum response can be read by hundreds if not thousands of eyes and whether we acknowledge it or not, that fact sensitizes us. The end result can be a hair-trigger reaction to what we perceive as criticism, or worse, ridicule. In fact it usually is all "seeming" and not based in fact or even in reality.
Just My Humble Opinion
Chat forums are are the perfect venue to display the weakness, the inability of words written to convey the intent and meaning of what a poster is trying to say.
In a face to face conversation or even on a radio or telephone, perhaps 30 - 50% more information is transmitted. Tone of voice, facial expressions and body language is the 30% missing, and that percentage is dang well high enough to cause misinterpretation.
I try and take a deep breath and count to 20 (ten isn't high enough) before I decide whether or not a questionable response is really what it "seems" to be. The power of the cyber pen makes many feel vulnerable. A public forum response can be read by hundreds if not thousands of eyes and whether we acknowledge it or not, that fact sensitizes us. The end result can be a hair-trigger reaction to what we perceive as criticism, or worse, ridicule. In fact it usually is all "seeming" and not based in fact or even in reality.
Just My Humble Opinion
