People who have matured and grown up using and socialising on the net do have an altered sense of emotion (for lack of a better term). MSN for instance, sometimes it takes some reading between the lines to see someone's real meaning, and if you've never had an online chat before, you might not be able to do that.
I get very rude to some people (strangers) online, and even though I don't mean to be cruel, I do sometimes need to remind myself I might be hurting feelings of real people.
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 9:02, archived)