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Originally Posted by ProfJulie
I agree with Harry's points, but I also think that people sometimes take on a different persona when they are at their keyboard and able to post things in a somewhat anonymous fashion.
I think some people who are shy and withdrawn in physical social settings can become outgoing and gregarious in a virtual social setting. Some people (I include myself here), who are outgoing and perfectly comfortable interacting in physical social settings are not so outgoing in virtual social settings.
There are people on this forum that I don't care for just from reading their comments, although if I sat down next to them and did not know who they were I might like them immensely.
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There are also people like me who despite being relatively intelligent, are a little slow on the uptake. I constantly find myself thinking of a brilliant response five minutes after the subject has changed. We tend to be more comfortable interacting in virtual social settings because we have an opportunity to review our responses before pressing the send key.