Gestures Online

I really do not think gestures can really be translated online, unless it via webcam or ichat or something like that.  If no one can see the gestures than the effect is lost.  Typing on aim or chats is more like writing and reading a manual or textbook, it is not a normal conversation.  Today in class we talked about how 55 percent of communication is non-verbal.  Gestures add so much to a conversation, typing cannot show those gestures.  Now if by online, you also mean webcam or ichat, then gestures can be translated online, but that is the only way.  Even when people type :) or something like that, it is still just typing, not a gesture.