Content and Practices for this list LO22306

Richard Karash (Richard@Karash.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:35:04 -0400

Replying to LO22298 --

Ed is describing a real phenomenon that certainly affects us.

In addition, with most email, once you hit the "send" key, the msg can't
be withdrawn.

It's one of the reasons I moderate the LO list. When I see such a posting,
I'll hold it and contact the author. More often than not, they then tell
me, "I'm glad... I was sorry as soon as I hit the send key."

Others tell me they've adopted a standard practice... Write a reply, then
wait overnight before hitting the "send" key.

-=- Rick

At 6:49 PM -0700 7/20/99, Ed Rosch wrote:

>The first insight is a process called 'social disinhibition'- often when
>one is replying to a message, one is physically alone. As our social
>cueing is a product of untold thousands of years of social and physical
>evolution of which email has been present for only 15-20 years, we revert
>to the ingrained social patterns. That is, when we're alone we are much
>less inhibited than when in the physical presence of others. This has
>been fairly well studied as one of the roots of 'flaming'.

-- 

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