Most interesting conversation?

Over our morning coffee, Mrs. D and I were revising our earliest Internet days, part of which involved a rather scholarly study of how the world was redefining the meaning of the word "here." This was circa 1992-95... and we were looking at what it actually "means" to say something like "I am IN a group" in a virtual context. Where is 'in," exactly?

This lead to talking a bit about a paper Mrs. D is currently working on, relating to trauma and processing emotions in the "texting generation." How do we interpret emotion when we only have text to look at, not an actual person who is giving us non-verbal cues, body language and more? And how is the ability to read body language being influenced in a generation that more often than not doesn't communicate in physical space?

Yes, we take things "lightly," around here...🤣