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Subject:e-mail / social skills From:Richard G Harris <rgh -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 23 Sep 1995 12:26:44 +0059
I've been following this thread with interest.
I see several people feel e-mail has enhanced/increased their social
contacts.
But I'm still concerned about how it affects the cocktail party type of
face-to-face social skills. My last boss depended on these skills at
company gatherings to get many things accomplished.
Also, since much face-to-face communicating depends on the nonverbal body
language, can smileys really replace it? Body language really
communicates a lot. I can understand a desire to hide some of that by
using e-mail, but is it a copout?
