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Originally Posted by MetaMan
because there IS a difference, on the web you cannot see or hear how someone is expressing themselves.
when you are on the phone with someone and someone is trying to be sarcastiv you can pick it up, when someone online is being sarcastic some people will pick up on it and most will not.
it is alot different communicating when you can see, hear, feel someones emotions, the internet does not make that part easy at all.
for example i have been told "you are gay" about a million times over the internet from friends and colleagues, now in regular life i would hear if someone is being sarcastic, yet online it is how i percieve it, maybe he really does not like me and thinks i am gay, it would all be my judgement because there is no emotion backing up the statement.
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This is somewhat true. Text is two dimensional and emotions and tone can be difficult to decipher. But a misunderstanding about emotion is quite a bit different than physical threats.
That being said, when I'm being sarcastic, I try to make it so people CAN tell that I'm just fucking around, but even then it can be mistrued.
Back to the topic...anything I've ever posted on a messageboard, I'd have absolutely no problem telling people to their face...but I'm also not one to talk shit on messageboards either. Any arguments I've had here have usually been good natured and I'd HOPE the other person thought so too. But then again I don't live for GFY drama.