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Originally Posted by Jim Westergren  Hmm ... interesting topic.
I have been writing on forums for years and believe it or not I find it easier to express myself in written form than verbally.
I like to use smileys when fittting and find the ones on vBulletin to be good for this. I actually find it easy to express my emotions with the written word. |
It depends on the emotion. I make it a point to maintain a calmness within myself all the time, so I rarely need to worry about expressing personal emotion except when trying to express humor. And I discipline myself to communicate using Aristotle's guidelines on rhetoric.
Of course, in person, I have to liven up a little.
But I haven't really built body language into my face-to-face conversations until recently, which has caused no end to interestingness...