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I have personally found online communication perfectly adequate for most uses. Humor usually comes across fairly well as long as it is not too subtle. However I have real problems with carrying on an emotional conversation on a computer. I much prefer face to face. For instance just last week I was talking to a girl online who said she had a bad week. I found out later in the conversation that something really bad happened and expressed my shock at it badly through writing. This is how is seemed to play out judging by the response. I may be mistaken since I applied my way a writing style and wordage matches a phrase's meaning to what she wrote, which could (I hope) be in error. I simply feel that unless you are a superb writer, much of the information which is meant to be transferred is lost. I feel similarly about phones. Although they are much better than writing online, it still leaves out the vital non-verbal communication that is so important in decoding what someone is saying.
Just my 2-cents. I hope I made sense.
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