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From: anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Re: Electronically Mediated Human Relationships
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Date: Mon, 11-Aug-86 22:43:14 EDT
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[Sorry, I don't know how to control these citations yet...somebody writes
about EC (electronic communication)]:
> Even when one is _not_ too wrapped up in EC (as Chris puts it), it is
> quite interesting to watch other people's reaction to this form of
> communication vs. face-to-face.  I've known at least three women who
> very much prefer the latter form of communication.  One of them is so
> vehemently opposed to answering via email that she'll call me back or
> visit me rather than posting.
But please tell us *why* she'd rather talk face-to-face, if you can,
because it seems clear that some people prefer one, some the other,
and some don't care about *how*, as long as they can communicate. I
think these reasons can tell us something about ourselves and about
what's happening around us. For what it's worth, I guess I could ask
my colleagues and report back on that. At the moment, there's a love/
hate relationship going on here over e-mail within the shop (I got
186 messages last week!; it takes a significant bite out of a busy
day, because many of them I must respond to). Nevertheless, people's
attitudes, reactions, before/after, etc., etc., are what I want to
know something about.

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