Let me (please)... be the "opponent" I do not buy it!.... You know, like the boy, in the "Emperor's new clothes". Have you read that book? All that " digitisation " does to us as "creatures" is not good... End of discussion! Hand on the heart is not the biggest win-win (the actual blog, professionell interactions, according to literature?) To lift "some ghosts out of the closet"? Or maybe tell that there is no ghost?... sharing our own experiences, mixed with our; fears, academic emotions, and so on... If the idea is to develop, and face our fears... Should I start to list "problems", perhaps? 1 Technical support, it is difficult with the connection (audio, picture). 2 Language events, difficulties. 3 The time-zones. 4 Time and space. (asynchronous vs synchronous). 5 Academic emotions, we are ignorant of how to communicate here. 6 We come from such different areas, experiences etc. that the