Chat Status
If it says your "idle" in your status message, doesnt that prolly mean in the real world (understand as opposed to Virtual World) that you are doing something?
Considering the time people waste beacuse of their computers today, i propose a slightly different status message protocol.
When ur off the computer, instead of "idle" it should say something like
option 1 - "Probably doing something useful"
option 2 - "having a life!"
When you log back on
option 1- "has nothing else to do"
option 2 - "twt mode" (time wasting tactics)
option 3- "looking for distraction form other bored people online"
option 4- "nothing good on tv"
when ur online for a really long time
option 1 - "idle"
Considering the time people waste beacuse of their computers today, i propose a slightly different status message protocol.
When ur off the computer, instead of "idle" it should say something like
option 1 - "Probably doing something useful"
option 2 - "having a life!"
When you log back on
option 1- "has nothing else to do"
option 2 - "twt mode" (time wasting tactics)
option 3- "looking for distraction form other bored people online"
option 4- "nothing good on tv"
when ur online for a really long time
option 1 - "idle"
posted by The Daysleeper at 7:09 PM
10 Comments:
and to think youd never have come up with this if i hadn't called you idle :P you should thank me :P
haha...true!
-puji
i thank becky who has inspired this post.. and for some spelling corrections she made
dude i was kidding, you neednt be so formal with me!
i thank becky for not demanding too much formality. :P
well I don't agree with you. if it says idle, it means you are not using the IM. which means that 'idle' is absolutely correct in the 'context' of the semantic usage of IM!!
was it geeky? :D
Back to being part of the 'vettipodifyingers' i see! :)
Hmm.. Makes sense... [:)]
:D That made sense.. I have my status msg as "woolgathering " right now
Check this: people doing research on chat status on IMs :P
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs2/525/http:zSzzSzwww.cs.rit.eduzSz~amtzSzpubszSzTeredesaiResigSIAMPaper.pdf/resig04framework.pdf
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