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Originally Posted by Chris T
MSN gives you an unnatural level of control over your social interaction with other people. In the real world - which you have to face sooner or later, and frankly the sooner the better - you can't talk TXT, you can't paste smileys onto the end of your sentences, you can't control who is in your conversation and when. Verbal conversation skills require face-to-face interaction.
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Exactly !!!
And I think we need to get out there and learn these skills for interaction and be able to speak face to face with people. Think about it when you end up getting a job...half of life revolves round communicating with other people.
With MSN, its too easy to use words and sentences that we wouldnt dare use in real life situations and it is basically just not the real you as you are hiding behind a PC. Meeting up with friends and seeing a smile on their face and laughing together is much more fun than spending an evening typing "LOL" on the PC.
OK, MSN is good for keeping in contact with penpals and I use it to organise meet ups with friends so we know what we are doing the following day, but theres just something about internet conversations that make them hard to interpret sometimes. On occasions people will write things that you may think mean more than something else, or they dont realise what impact a certain phrase that can be quickly typed can have at that second it appears.