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I've made numerous friends over IRCs, Warcraft 3 chat channels and whatnot and had preferred it over face-to-face (and I still prefer chat over zoom calls!) but
by creakingstairs 3y ago
I've made numerous friends over IRCs, Warcraft 3 chat channels and whatnot and had preferred it over face-to-face (and I still prefer chat over zoom calls!) but as I've gotten older, I started appreciating talking in real life more and more, and now struggle to form connections over chat. I wonder if there are others who are in the same boat.
- JAlexoid 3y agoYou cannot compare an open chat, with a strong interest in a particular topic vs you team's Slack channel. Online games work well, because you have a visual and full engagement. Compare that to work communications... You are totally async on slack, it's just a simpler version of email at this point. Just because people are online in Slack today, doesn't mean that they'll respond within minutes. If someone is online playing a game, you know that they're there. Old IRC was pretty much the same.
- creakingstairs 3y agoI get what you are saying but I seem to find it hard to engage with anyone, even my old friends, over chat these days. We end up hopping into voice chat when we want to catch up.