| > Interaction is mostly with total strangers My online social interaction is mostly with people I've talked to daily for years, sometimes decades. Most of them I've had close personal talks with. While I haven't met most of them face to face, they're certainly not strangers. > almost always in text form (no subtext, no facial expression, no body language) While most of my online social interactions is via text, some is via speech. TeamSpeak was common before but more niche, Discord is making it very convenient so more general these days. That said, I'd say you can express a lot through text, but it's a different art perhaps. I sorta grew up on newsgroups and IRC. While it's nice meeting people in person, I can certainly fill most of my social quota via Discord or similar these days. Thinking more about it, I think the key difference is that what I enjoy is the content of the talk, not how it's performed (ie body language etc). |