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Originally Posted by DanaC
Hmm. Not sure that's peculiar to virtual worlds, Ali. People fill in blanks and make assumption, because that's what we do....we search for patterns and meaning in what we experience, real or virtual.
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Of course we do. It's all a part of creating meaning. I think it's more prevalent on the internet though, and if it happens to be a virtual world of our own making, well then of course everything is made up.
In a real world relationship between two people, we can observe the way they carry themselves, how they look when they speak. We can see the body language attached to certain statements and know if they're serious or not (largely). We can see how they react to their surroundings. We can hear tone of voice etc. Of course, all these observations are then processed through the filters we've developed due to our own prior experience, but we still then are able to make a better assumption based on our own understanding rather than the grossely wrong ones we are more prone to in a virtual environment.