Can we pick up feelings and emotion on the web?
Have you ever been choked up by a book? Maybe even shed a tear? Get mad? Laugh?
Of course you have. The fact is that emotion can be transmitted through written word.
I have been involved in a lot of conversations about whether or not ‘true community’ can exist on the internet and the fall-back argument of opponents of the idea is that feelings just don’t transmit in the context of the web. We can’t truly know how someone may be feeling in a given context.
Remember when you first started commenting on blogs or posting on social profiles? There was a learning curve for all of us to understand context, emotion, voice and all the other little nuances that go with being an internet citizen that wants to hear and be heard. I think a seasoned internet citizen can pick up on the things we think we’re missing because of the lack of physical presence.
Am I way off? Can we read feeling and emotion on the web?
