My well being depends upon you to engage 'it all'

[Chiefsmom]

My well-being depends solely on rum. Well, a couple of daily chemicals to keep my heart ticking along in 3/4 time and to keep me from stroking out, but mostly it depends on the rum.

What you say here is absolutely true:

This form of digital communication makes it doubly difficult to get one's message or context or intent across in the exact way they meant it without typing a long wall of explanatory text.

People don't realize on how much true communication depends upon "body language" - stance, relaxation or tension, facial expression and more - all of it adds to and enriches communication. It gives nuances of meaning to the mere spoken word... and it is precisely what is missing from written, online communications. Without those ancillary indicators enriching the written word, people and their meanings are sometimes misinterpreted.

I worry about future generations and their apparent addiction to electronic media on specifically that account.If this form of communication takes over, will they even get enough in-person socialization to subconsciously teach them those cues?

Is the future of human communication going to be as automatons, void of expressions and social cues, robotic in nature?

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I can't remember where I read it recently, but they are already having problems with teens and some young adults not being able to understand facial cues or body language.
If I am unclear about what context someone is typing online, I do try to ask them.  I also think it is different when someone has been around for a while, and you can read their "style" of writing, to get a better feel than of someone that posts one line and that's it.   At least I tend to judge by that.  Right or wrong I guess.