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Interrupting is a communication felony, says Jerry Seinfeld in an interview with Oprah. “If someone is talking — and I don’t care what they’re saying or how excited you are to say what you have to say — wait until he or she is finished. When you interrupt, you’ve stopped listening. People want to be heard.”

One of the upsides about online conversations is that we listen better because we can’t interrupt. And maybe the reason many people say more online than they would in-person is that they feel that they can have a say. MySpace’s “Never Ending Friending Study,” released this summer, found that 50% of those surveyed said that they are “less awkward when I communicate on this site than in person,” and “the site allows me to more social than I am in person.”

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