Post AA5qpcr3a4czGxg9Pk by Verdigris@cybre.space
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(DIR) Post #AA5o3WfR5BPAH4BCvw by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T20:18:12.854361Z
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I feel like video-conferences are much more alienating than text.Maybe I'm weird, but there's something more immediate and direct and intimate about word-to-word that makes a textual interaction feel like an acceptable surrogate for in-person interaction in a way that a video call isn't.
(DIR) Post #AA5qpcr3a4czGxg9Pk by Verdigris@cybre.space
2021-08-07T20:46:53Z
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@Azure It's not just you. Even with the best audio & video quality we can get these days, the feeling of being hermetically sealed off from the other people is uncomfortable and ever-present.I speculate that's due to a lack of scent cues--because it's such a dominant sense that it's invisible until something gets in the way. (I can share source links for that info, if you want.)
(DIR) Post #AA5qpdK7pzscj7HMiu by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T20:49:18.274806Z
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@Verdigris I hadn't considered scent. I'd be curious to see the info!I had assumed it was because you're definitely NOT and very markedly not sharing space.While in both physical copresence and a textual virtuality you ARE sharing space. (A virtual space in the latter case, but shared space all the same.)
(DIR) Post #AA5s6WQGqdwUCWlpqK by Verdigris@cybre.space
2021-08-07T20:59:25Z
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@Azure We don't have a visceral expectation that text will come in alongside the scent of the person who wrote it, the way that we do the actual sight of them (and to lesser extent, the sound of their voice).I liberated a couple of relevant NYT articles from behind their paywall a while back:https://403.dreamwidth.org/127206.html - "Some COVID Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste"https://403.dreamwidth.org/127299.html - "What Can COVID-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell" (in-depth article)