Yes, thank you! We like to think that being honest is about not thinking about interacting -- but if you don't think about how you interact, you can be, well, thoughtless. ;) But yes, there's a fine balance between self-aware and hyperaware, so I'll probably leave off thinking about this for a bit until it comes back to the top of my brain!
Online interactions do seem to grow and evolve and change -- especially the ones that feel like you actually know a person, despite never having met. Since I have many "co-workers" who are online (or via phone) only, there's a weird sense of disconnect between physical reality and the one in which I work on a daily basis. :)
Re: manipulation, calculation, distance, self representation, etc.
Online interactions do seem to grow and evolve and change -- especially the ones that feel like you actually know a person, despite never having met. Since I have many "co-workers" who are online (or via phone) only, there's a weird sense of disconnect between physical reality and the one in which I work on a daily basis. :)