How much do you edit yourself when you are having an online conversation vs having a face to face conversation with a person?
It is a bit harder to edit yourself when you are talking to someone in person. You can’t obviously pause and reflect on everything a person says and then respond with a witty/humorous/serious/insightful response. It would make for a very borng/slow conversation.
For example, if you are replying to a thread on GS and you think you’ve done a pretty good job with a nice witty response. But then you read it over, and think, hey I can make this better. Do you go back and edit and make it “funnier”?
We obviously wouldn’t get that opportunity in real life. You’d be stuck with your lame joke or your lazy, uninsightful advice.
So, how does the edit button and having some time on your side when IMing change the dynamics of your conversation? Do these things provide you with the opportunity to be more insightful and funny than if you were having the same conversation with that person, in person?
edit: sometimes in a flow, I make grave grammatical mistakes, which I edit right away if I notice them by re-reading my response. Ex: using third form of verb with 'did' - that is something I smack myself for everytime I do that.
In real life situations I’m the same quite outsider so theres not often a need to worry too much. Although when I do stumble across words I have no idea what they mean I just nod and grunt as if I knew all about it and heard it all before. Worked for me so far… at least online you can always quickly goodle the answers
How much do you edit yourself when you are having an online conversation vs having a face to face conversation with a person?
For example, if you are replying to a thread on GS and you think you've done a pretty good job with a nice witty response. But then you read it over, and think, hey I can make this better. Do you go back and edit and make it "funnier"?
So, how does the edit button and having some time on your side when IMing change the dynamics of your conversation? Do these things provide you with the opportunity to be more insightful and funny than if you were having the same conversation with that person, in person?
I edit my profanity as well. Also I don't think most people are as funny as they would be in a real life conversation with the snappy retorts. I also will go back and edit if there are glaring spelling/grammatical mistakes that I notice later.
And sometimes I will say something, but then think that was too mean (because sarcasm always doesn't come out the right way or be taken in the right context) and will edit it out.
