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Originally Posted by DeliriousDisposition
But that's just it... I+N pairings would be INTJ/INFJ. There are Introverted Thinkers, Introverted Feelers and Introverted Sensors as well. And then you know, all the different Extroverts as well (though you only named Extroverted Sensors).
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Well, INTP and INFP as well.
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Originally Posted by whatever
- I've generally found it more difficult to interact here than in real life since I rely heavily on body language and reading another person when communicating- here you can't inflect words with a certain tone or see how the other person is holding thier hands- I do think that a lot of disagreements and spats would be avoided if we could see and hear each other instead of just reading what was typed (and conversely, a lot of spats and disagreements would start when people realized what was written between the lines!  ) |
ok, so I haven't been that active on MBTIc recently, but I'm very active on another similar forum. For me, text is way way easier for interacting than speaking to someone IRL. There's time to
think about what I'm saying. At work, I much prefer writing emails to speaking - I'm a lot more coherent in writing than in speech.
Reading body language doesn't come naturally to me - it's a distraction. And I've also found that people often misread my body language. It's often not congruent with what I'm really thinking/feeling, and it sometimes bugs me that people read so much into body language IRL.
People generally have very distinctive ways of writing. I've talked to quite a few people who I first met online (both IRC and voice - but I prefer IRC). There's only been one where there's been a mis-match between how they come across in posts and how they talk. Everyone else was consistent, ie no surprises.
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Originally Posted by FMWarner
To me, the other half of the story that you would get if we spoke in real life wouldn't represent me. It would be random, and it would be like trying to watch a TV show with static. I don't see it as hiding myself, I see it as eliminating distraction.
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It's pretty much the same for me. I've (slowly) learnt to hide some of the static which reduces the distraction for other people, but increases my level of distraction because there's less 'spare' processing available for observing the other person.