The Crux of Online Drama

The psychologytoday syndicated feed has recently posted a couple of interesting articles about detecting personality and intent from online communications.

This one is about whether details about a person's personality and gender can be determined from online conversation.

This one discusses how the lack of non-verbal "nuances" in online communication can lead to wild misinterpretations of a person's intent in email.

As many of you know, one of the 'gund's chief pet peeves in life is Internet drama. I know that some people are drawn to it--and feed off of it--like sharks to blood, but I get online to relax, have fun, and get away from real-life stresses. So making myself sick or losing sleep over whether DramaQueen1072 doesn't like a story or opinion I've posted or whether IhAvEn0lIfE44 has reconciled with Anita_Grow_Up5 over the "scathing" review the latter left the former really has no place in my life.

( So My Thoughts on Internet Drama and Misread Communication.... )