Chatting

I'm using the computer more and more. Lately I am chatting a lot. I have discovered chatting because I was trying to do some VoIP and you get usually a chat program with it. It was just a way to communicate with my sister in Italy. But then I have discovered that a lot of friends are on the web. It's a different way to communicate. Talking on a phone is faster, and sometimes nicer, but chatting is much more convenient, it's different.
It happened to me to encounter even a couple of people that wanted to chat with me. That gives a strange sensation, like the CB radio when I was a kid. It seems to authentic, you tend to open yourself, but then it feels also so false. Chatting with someone on the other side of the world, someone you will never meet....it feels like pretending.