{"id":1004,"date":"2004-01-21T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/21\/im-is-the-lowest-form-of-communication\/"},"modified":"2004-01-21T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T19:51:00","slug":"im-is-the-lowest-form-of-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/21\/im-is-the-lowest-form-of-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;IM is the lowest form of communication&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend said that, and I&apos;m starting to believe it more and more. Don&apos;t get me wrong, I love to chat. But I&apos;ve found out that it can easily lead to confusion, misunderstanding and bruised feelings. <\/p>\n<p>It&apos;s amazing the amount of non-verbal clues you get in face-to-face, or even voice-only conversation. Telling the same stupid comment, but with different tones, inflections, or just a grin on your face can totally change the meaning and impact. Now granted, what I&apos;m saying right now isn&apos;t news, nor rocket science. It&apos;s just that sometimes, the most obvious truths are the most neglected ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend said that, and I&apos;m starting to believe it more and more. Don&apos;t get me wrong, I love to chat. But I&apos;ve found out that it can easily lead to confusion, misunderstanding and bruised feelings. It&apos;s amazing the amount of non-verbal clues you get in face-to-face, or even voice-only conversation. Telling the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/21\/im-is-the-lowest-form-of-communication\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&quot;IM is the lowest form of communication&quot;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-gc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}