Split Personality

Whenever I chat with someone and then later talk to them, I feel the person on chat was somewhat different from the person I am talking to. Again the same happens when I meet the person.

It looks like it is possible to communicate with three personalities in every person. The person face to face is the most modest and consequently the most camouflaged. The person on the phone is somewhere in the middle. The person on chat is the most open.

Probably to keep the facial expressions under control, people control all their emotions and hide a lot of their personality. The person on the chat feels he/she cannot be seen and so doesn't put so much effort into hiding his/her feelings.

This is what my friend 'Deepak' had to add on reading this post

"Its not that I am not what I am in person. I am that also and this also. It's true that I don't control or restrain much while on chat. but on chat I don't mind being serious. Or speak like Plato.

There more time to think and analyze on chat. When face to face or even on phone, you speak the first thing on your mind but on chat, it occurs that I say 4th or 5th thing. Also, there is relatively nil degree of fear.
This fear can be of many types - like you might fear that the other person might get angry, might not like it, might think something about u or u might not be able to explain properly and a misunderstanding might develop

In-person, the mind has to control so much more, the body language, the dialogue delivery, the tone, timbre, depth, for required impression

I think chat brings out our true relationship with the particular person more nicely."