I will occasionally care about their twitter/etc, but mostly it's the person's picture that matters. I guess it's hard to describe because it's a _feeling_, bu

I will occasionally care about their twitter/etc, but mostly it's the person's picture that matters. I guess it's hard to describe because it's a _feeling_, but it feels like I'm communicating with a person, rather than some kind of email sending robot. This wasn't the reason I started using it, so it kinda surprised me at how much of a difference this makes to my communication. I'm not sure why it's not useful to you - one possible reason is that you're already very good at empathizing with the person at the other end of your email (not being sarcastic). Another thing which surprises me is that the picture doesn't matter - old/young/geeky/cool/black/white/male/female don't really convey any useful information to my response, but it just kinda feels like I know this person in some way, and want to treat them better.