Do you IM like you talk? Or do you talk like you IM?
Boredom breeds a pensive neo today. I'm bored here at the lab at 11pm waiting for things to happen so I can leave. People ask me what I do at the lab. I tell them I tickle rats. Someone needs to study if there's some sort of giggle response in those fuckers. Why not be me?
All joking aside, I was just thinking about people who IM. IM, or instant messaging (for the thorough) is really a wonderful creation. There are huge benefits. Really, I see three. For one, it lets me multitask. Despite my maleness (which, according to my wife, means I have a reduced ability to multitask), I can surf the web, do some labwork, or pick my nose and still carry on a pretty good conversation with someone. For two, its very convenient for long distance friends. Instead of hoping and praying that they're home or I'm home (which is rare), IM tells us if we're both available to chat and we can do so without paying huge fees or losing minutes. For three, it allows a little bit of evilness to pervade. A friend and I can hold a conversation with a third party seperately - and cause a whole bunch of retardedness. Yes, I have no life.
But there's one HUGE, interesting thing I've noticed. Well, annoying for me. People don't treat it like a conversation. Here are some intriguing IM habits I have noticed:
1. Long ass pauses that happen every 10 minutes or so.
I mean, I don't really care if someone is busy - but got damn. If you're going to leave for 30 minutes - at least say something. Tell me, hey man, I gotta do something for a little bit. Something. Its like as if I was talking to someone and decided to just walk away for 30 minutes or so and just come back like nothing happened - expecting the other person to be there waiting for me to say something.
2. Barely there messaging.
You know what I mean. Its when someone does the bare minimum to keep an IM going. They figure they'll do just enough to feign attention upon the other person. You can't fake me. I'm not dumb. You're like IM'ing a million people and I'm WAY at the bottom of that list. OR you just don't really care. Either that or I just talk too fucking much. Most likely that I talk too fucking much.
3. IM as a bulletin board.
I treat IM's like a conversation. I focus as much of my attention on the fellow IM'er as I can (other than when I'm picking my nose, scratching my ass, or fucking). I feel like if they're talking to me, they would prefer to have my full attention and not my half ass job of noticing. Imagine talking to someone and all they do is work, watch tv, or pick their nose. Would you want to talk to them anymore? Well, the problem is that some IM'ers feel that IM isn't really a conversation. They feel its a bulletin board - where you can post and then leave, and come back anytime you please. This is most likely redundant to no. 1, but hey, I'm typing freestyle like Eminem. Psyche. Anyways, i'd prefer to IM in packets of time - like a real conversation. I don't have the time to check up on the bulletin board that some call a conversation every 10 minutes or so to see what the other person said.
4. Close the damn conversation.
Why can't people say goodbye? Whey do they just leave? I'll be conversatin with someone on IM for a good 15 mintues or so, then, inexplicably, they're logged off and gone. I just got ho'd (never actually tried spelling this out before - looks rather amusing). At least say "later." Again, if you say goodbye in real life, say it in IM! It's only 7 letters to type. 3 letters if you 3/7th ass it. It ain't that hard. C'mon now.
Well, now that I've got that off my chest. I'm sure I've offended about... everyone. Trust me, you're not who you think you are. My closer friends are great on IM. Its the ones who don't read this blog and the ones I rarely talk to who suck.
Bitches. (I gotta get that Tourette's fixed or somethin')
All joking aside, I was just thinking about people who IM. IM, or instant messaging (for the thorough) is really a wonderful creation. There are huge benefits. Really, I see three. For one, it lets me multitask. Despite my maleness (which, according to my wife, means I have a reduced ability to multitask), I can surf the web, do some labwork, or pick my nose and still carry on a pretty good conversation with someone. For two, its very convenient for long distance friends. Instead of hoping and praying that they're home or I'm home (which is rare), IM tells us if we're both available to chat and we can do so without paying huge fees or losing minutes. For three, it allows a little bit of evilness to pervade. A friend and I can hold a conversation with a third party seperately - and cause a whole bunch of retardedness. Yes, I have no life.
But there's one HUGE, interesting thing I've noticed. Well, annoying for me. People don't treat it like a conversation. Here are some intriguing IM habits I have noticed:
1. Long ass pauses that happen every 10 minutes or so.
I mean, I don't really care if someone is busy - but got damn. If you're going to leave for 30 minutes - at least say something. Tell me, hey man, I gotta do something for a little bit. Something. Its like as if I was talking to someone and decided to just walk away for 30 minutes or so and just come back like nothing happened - expecting the other person to be there waiting for me to say something.
2. Barely there messaging.
You know what I mean. Its when someone does the bare minimum to keep an IM going. They figure they'll do just enough to feign attention upon the other person. You can't fake me. I'm not dumb. You're like IM'ing a million people and I'm WAY at the bottom of that list. OR you just don't really care. Either that or I just talk too fucking much. Most likely that I talk too fucking much.
3. IM as a bulletin board.
I treat IM's like a conversation. I focus as much of my attention on the fellow IM'er as I can (other than when I'm picking my nose, scratching my ass, or fucking). I feel like if they're talking to me, they would prefer to have my full attention and not my half ass job of noticing. Imagine talking to someone and all they do is work, watch tv, or pick their nose. Would you want to talk to them anymore? Well, the problem is that some IM'ers feel that IM isn't really a conversation. They feel its a bulletin board - where you can post and then leave, and come back anytime you please. This is most likely redundant to no. 1, but hey, I'm typing freestyle like Eminem. Psyche. Anyways, i'd prefer to IM in packets of time - like a real conversation. I don't have the time to check up on the bulletin board that some call a conversation every 10 minutes or so to see what the other person said.
4. Close the damn conversation.
Why can't people say goodbye? Whey do they just leave? I'll be conversatin with someone on IM for a good 15 mintues or so, then, inexplicably, they're logged off and gone. I just got ho'd (never actually tried spelling this out before - looks rather amusing). At least say "later." Again, if you say goodbye in real life, say it in IM! It's only 7 letters to type. 3 letters if you 3/7th ass it. It ain't that hard. C'mon now.
Well, now that I've got that off my chest. I'm sure I've offended about... everyone. Trust me, you're not who you think you are. My closer friends are great on IM. Its the ones who don't read this blog and the ones I rarely talk to who suck.
Bitches. (I gotta get that Tourette's fixed or somethin')
posted by Richard at 10:59 PM
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