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I beleive that at the moment with pure text communcation you are losing a huge amount of information that you would otherwise pick up through seeing a persons body language, facial expressions etc - you have to fill in the gaps yourself. I have never met anyone in real life who I have initially only had an internet relationship with so I don't know if there is any disparagy between the person you assume they are through the bits you've had to fill in and the person they actually are in real life. I reckon that as technology gets better the gap between real and virtual communication with respect to information loss will lessen until it's negligable - these message boards will one day be realtime streaming video and we'll all harken back to the simpler days of text only (y'see in my day)
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