The timing is part of the problem. It’s not as fun to have to wait very patiently for the other person to stop talking. I know that’s the polite thing to do even in real life, but sometimes interruptions are a good thing.
I like being able to see people on a screen vs not seeing them at all, but real life is better. I do like seeing people on screen who I would not have seen otherwise.
With close friends, when it’s just 2–5 of us it’s still really good. In groups that are larger it’s mostly good for presentations and question and answer. I’m sometimes not quite as attentive to a zoom presentation as I am real life though. The presenter often seems more dry than usual, so I guess that is similar to boring. I have attended some fantastic zoom meetings though that I never would have had a chance to see without covid and zoom. My dad joins also quite often, which is really nice to be able to do things with him even more than before zoom.
My experience is the talkative people are still talkative and the quiet people are still quiet, and I haven’t observed an over exaggeration of either personality on zoom compared to real life.
Today I have my mystery lovers club, the topic is the author Janet Evanovich. I rarely read a mystery or any books, but this club presents the author, and I find the lives of people very interesting, and the presenter is either very interested in the author or it is the author themselves, and they come across on zoom very well. Before it starts the club members say hi to each other and chat a little, find out where people are. It’s nice. I “meet“ more people in the “room” than I would in a real life setting and I don’t find that boring at all.