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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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you are right, when i am told my mother is a whore online i can't tell the person is joking so it is ok that they say it and totally professional, because if we were on the phone I would be able to hear him laugh after he said it
in some rare cases when someone is trying to be funny, it could be missunderstood online. There is a reason why there are ICONS here as well. if you saying something
or joking with them
there are visuals you can use to help make sure you are not missunderstood. However that is not what this thread is about. There is no missunderstanding someone online when they say they are going to put a slug in you or punch you in your jaw when they see you or they call you a pedo.