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

[wild_irises]

Basically disagree. The Internet (as someone upthread pointed out, in its current primarily-text form) has some significant and important issues with limited bandwidth, and is not ideal for transmitting tone accurately. It also operates at a speed which can encourage hastiness and lack of time to reconsider.

At the same time, there is far too much evidence of successful communication of emotional content on the Internet for a statement like the one you quote to be anywhere near true.