Why aren’t introverts better at messaging?
My friend says he gets social panic when he’s facing people. As the medium is a chat app shouldn’t the going be easier (for introverts)? Replying in controlled env etc.
Annecdotally, as an ambivert, my experience with chat apps (versus physical life) results in even more social anxiety. The amount of criticism on Slack is higher than I experience in physical life. When you see a person, you can pick up on queues that they are being sarcastic or recognize their individual speech pattern as something to minimize. Text looks far more uniform in terms of interpreting emotion/personality. Even when I post on HN, I’m not sure if some comment I tried to write in a measured way will be harshly criticized. When I say something similar in person, the hearer has a moment pause before saying something adversarial because they can see my face and humanize me.