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Yeah, what’s up with that? Is it something about not seeing the person face to face that makes us so prone to opening up in this way? The absence of normal social pretense maybe?
People keep their defenses up more when they have to do "facework". If you're not having to make eye contact, it's easier to speak freely.
Even though it's rare these days, it's the reason behind that whole Freudian idea of therapy where the patient lies on the couch and isn't looking at the clinician.
I had no idea that came from Freud! What a mixed bag of a guy.