emotional exchange on the internet

[piranha]

from a discussion elsejournal comes this statement:

"The Internet is uniquely un-suited to emotional content."

agree, or disagree? why?

discuss if you would be so kind.

[crossposted to LJ/DW, comments welcome in both places.]

Comments

[redbird]

Disagree, largely on the grounds that it's far too broad and thus vague. I am happily conducting two solid relationships with much help from the internet: we talk about all sorts of things on IM (mostly one partner) and email (mostly the other). I've made a lot of other connections via LJ and Usenet.

Email isn't a substitute for touch. Neither are paper letters. And neither, for me, is touch a substitute for words, spoken or written.

[azurelunatic]

Nor is the phone a substitute for touch. (Miss Lunatic is suffering through some long-distance friendship right now, and is inclined to be woeful.)