I must radiate some aura of uneasiness or something in person. People I'm talking to generally don't say exceptionally much, and the conversation goes as normal.
Then, when I get into a conversation on an IM service, of any kind, my conversational partner will cover all ends of the conversational spectrum. I probably wouldn't even have noticed, except that people I talk to in person fairly regularly that don't say much suddenly become this gushing fountain of conversation on every subject under the sun.
This also has the possibly-related side effect of sucking me into some relationship issues conversation about every week and a half, despite my having never had a single bit of experience in the field. That puzzles me even more when I realize that most of those conversations are from a group of people that I'm lucky to get a word from in face to face talk.
For example, I just finished a conversation with a person I've known for about four weeks. We were in the same group for enrollment/orientation weekend for K-State. I didn't hear from her again for three and a half weeks. Now, two days after I hear from her again, she's talking to me about a boyfriend I didn't even know she
had and how she doesn't think she can deal with a long distance relationship, something I'm fairly certain would
never have come up in face to face conversation.
I wonder if there is a link between perceived privacy of a conversation, regardless of actual privacy, and willingness to communicate.
