I used to prefer online conversation to phone conversation. But a few months out of college, I started having regular phone conversations with some of my college friends, and I realized just how much I was missing in online conversations by not having tone of voice and other cues--if you tell a joke and you hear the other person laugh, it's a lot more fun, even if you are lacking all the body language. I think IM is where I do the worst, with all the disadvantages of real-time conversation and none of the tone or body language cues, nor physical proximity to help give topics to restart dying conversations.
I still prefer e-mail for business-related things, except in those cases where it's urgent, or sufficiently complicated that I need someone to interrupt me if they don't understand.
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Date: 2009-07-15 04:54 am (UTC)I still prefer e-mail for business-related things, except in those cases where it's urgent, or sufficiently complicated that I need someone to interrupt me if they don't understand.