There is the conversation recently about conversation, how differently it behaves and changes or doesn’t, depending on whether conversing while walking or sitting, which leads me to ponder the differences too when chatting via technology versus carrier pigeon or smoke signal, the differences in email versus inky letters (also quill versus Bic), the way one conversation is better by phone and another in person or vice versa, in which case I wonder: is it the subject being discussed or the person being spoken with that makes the difference because it seems also that some of us are simply better by phone and worse in person and best by email and hopeless in ink or so many variations of the above.
The point is this. There is all that.
And there is the pleasure, too, of this conversation possibly never entirely ending.
the art of conversation 101: don’t talk with your mouth full
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Matilda Magtree 
In person conversations are what I prefer. Body language is what I need to fully connect with someone.
That’s so interesting. I never considered body language, but yes, of course, that makes so much sense.
Weirdly enough I was brought to your blog because of a “blue monkey” post from several years ago and I think your point there is relative here too. Maybe some people are easier to relate to when you know what monkey they have and others maybe have funky blue monkeys and it’s easier to speak with them electronically because you can’t actually see the monkey there. I hope you remember the post or this will sound BANANAS.
haha! Bananas is entirely appropriate when referencing blue monkeys. (Thanks so much for reminding me of that, and yes, it’s similar isn’t it… the medium really IS such a big part of the message.) https://matildamagtree.com/2012/04/04/the-shape-of-our-blue-monkey-thoughts/