When I read back my post from yesterday I realize that it is pretty convoluted and meanders in a pretty incoherent manner.. a friend put it correctly I guess he said it was your "stream of consciousness" .. He was probably just being polite .. I guess the writing will improve as time goes by..

One of the things that i have noticed is the so called Politics of Instant Messengers , I am not sure if anyone has done a study on them..

Firstly I am not so sure about people who are invisible all the time ..say everybody is invisible then how can anyone know who is visible ? You are invisible and so am I , then what ?? Why should I be visible ? Even I have pesky friends who I dont want to talk to sometimes .. How about the argument that I am busy and so I am invisble ? If you are busy then dont log on !!
And it gets worse , what about those people who are visible but have a Busy sign !!! :O :O ... what the hell ..are you trying to tell the world that you are busy ? If you are busy why are you logged in .. Ok one possible explanation is that you are busy talking to someone special , thats it..thats when you become invisible..
Aha.. maybe the scenario is that you are waiting for someone to come online and you dont want to talk to anyone else while you are waiting for them..But if they see that you are busy how can they talk to you ? maybe thats already been communicated ..

One more pet peeve ..one of my friends thinks that the messenger should be a minute to minute description of his daily life ..so he puts in things like "Cutting Nails" , "Staring out of the window", ..so on .. I am not sure why anyone would be interested in this kind of information ..

Also if you see that someone is online that you havent spoken to in a long time, should you make the first move , what if he/she doesnt respond ? Or the see it the other way , if you away for a short period of time and somebody sends a message , will he stop talking to you because you didnt respond ? will he take you as a snob ? Do you have to explain later ..
I am going and logging on messenger now .. You will not know though , I will be invisible ofcourse ;)  ¶ permalink