That may be the case for some people, but for others of us (and like a commenter above said), it brings out the worst of us. I found myself getting involved in

That may be the case for some people, but for others of us (and like a commenter above said), it brings out the worst of us. I found myself getting involved in petty arguments with people or just make an off-the-cuff statement because only that person knows the relationship we maintain between us, and suddenly another one of their friends/family chime in, completely missing the gist of the response. You forget that there's this huge network of people, people that could be your next employer or co-worker, future partner, that are attached to these otherwise meaningless comments you wrote just to be clever. I said to Jimbob was going to resurface down the road or that I'd end up in a screenshot posted on some site by anyone else that could have seen that conversation, even if it wasn't insulting to me personally. Ultimately, I wasn't comfortable with my every day conversations being available to hundreds if not thousands of people that don't know me or my tone.