Role playing?

Some people may ask if I ever did any kind of online role playing.
I've never done gaming like Second Life because as the initiated know the paws aren't good and even typing a bit can easily lead to a major flare up never mind the kinds of movement involving joysticks and touch pads.
One is having done some a few years back it can be hard to get all the right characters  you need as if say it involves something involving say a pretend school setting next to nobody wants to be the one who runs the group and sets the work which in whose contexts are marked.
Another can be the potential for misunderstanding is high as what might be subtitles in more nuanced speech get totally misread and before you know it it's daggers drawn where seemingly nothing can pull either side back and attempts to explain back and forth only back fire spectacularly.
Having gone through the latter rest assured I have no intentions of resuming that in a hurry cos it really hurt me.
I just don't feel any kind of online role playing really works out that well for a variety of reasons really.