WHY is this place so mean sometimes! Experience Project was a place 11 yrs ago where you got empathy when you shared some weak points -it was beautifu

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I miss the kindness of EP ❤

SW can be a moody mean place - yikes 😬

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THATS the main difference between SW and why a lot of us long for the magic of EP. It’s was hilarious weird but always kind and compassionate in my experience.

I will preface further posts with: be gentle !!

Divorce and relationships can be cruel…sometimes we are here to vent and look for support.

I will keep my history of posts so you can see what I mean - won’t be childish enough to call out and block anyone but geez. Mercy I have some tough days but I’ll be ok. End rant

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Margot

previously in direct communication acts of semantic conversational empathy were validated through parallel audiovisual communication channels (voice intonation/facial expressions/gestures etc)

when communicating on the web in text format people retained the habit of having their semantics validated by their interlocutor for some time

gradually this habit atrophied

this led to a loss of trust in the emotional semantic component of text messages

now this is the norm

ps

mechanism

when communicating via text people no longer need to activate their audiovisual channels to demonstrate emotions

this is self-stimulation

in other words their psyche is less stimulated than during direct communication

this reduces the overall emotional response to a stimulus which is expressed in the degree of emotionality of the text message