I disagree--words can hurt

• What makes cyberspace interesting? by John Suler, 6/26/97
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    • Cyberspace-can words hurt by Keith Richardson, 9/23/97
      
      

Keith, may I respectfully disagree with you? I think that words are VERY powerful. We not only form images of the people whose words we read, but have emotional connections to them IF we perceive that we have a relationship with that person. If this happens, their words can be loaded with meaning. And my sense is that people are forming relationships of some type in cyberspace. I think that the drive to connect to others is so strong that we will use whatever medium we have access to. Just my opinion.

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