PSYCHOLOGY OF CYBERSPACE
    Time Distortion in Chatting Online
    David Stein dstein@B · 9/7/97 at 1:37 PM ET

    Speaking of time... one thing I've noticed about online chatting is a definite time-distortion. People can chat for hours and feel like much has been discussed. But one can easily go back and read the entire chat log in a matter of minutes. It may be that this time-distortion indicates that much more is going on in the mind of the chatter than in normal F2F conversation.


    Replies:
    • re: time distortion, by John Suler, 9/8/97
      • messages of the mind, by WlfWoman, 10/4/98
        • idle time, by John, 10/4/98

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