I guess it could be said to be an amplification of the already-present perceptual differences between us - regardless of how long you've known someone, you'll never get a glimpse of their 'complete' existence - an independent, objective self probably couldn't be said to exist at all. What you've been interacting with is just another facet of them, and it's likely that people could have spoken to the meatbag for years without ever knowing the text dispensing entity is an equally valid expression of their persona. You probably appear in a similar way to him, and it'll be interesting to see how you go about reconciling the personae you use for regular social interaction and text-based anonymity, when talking to someone ostensibly from one sphere with the set of tools you've cultivated from another.
Either way, hope everything goes well, and be grateful you're not living in an era where all that text had to pass through via telegrams.
I largely agree - at least for me personally, attempting to shave any significant amount of body hair would be a laughably futile task that'd probably produce hideous results regardless of the effort involved. It can work for some people, but in the vast majority of cases, I'd prefer trimmed over shaved.
