A day without Instant Messenger
Posted on | February 25, 2009 | Comments Off
It may surprise my two readers to know that I went without instant messenger service for roughly one yearh and nine months starting mid-year 2006 and lasting until May 2008. I had my first real job in a cubicle with a computer, and I didn’t want to abuse it. When I got home at the end of the day, I didn’t really want to stare at the screen, and if I did it was just to write. I was so much more focused then than I am now! Then I got a new computer that I couldn’t even figure out how to turn on, so finding my old friends on chat got kind of tough. Actually, I think most of my friends from college deflected from chat right around the same time I did.
That was the year I started going out more and staying in less. I met a guy IRL and got to know him by hanging out with him IN PERSON rather than over constant Chat Messenger services. What a difference! Of course, we broke up eight months later, but that was also in person, which meant that every tear I shed was like a stab wound in his heart. AWESOME!
At my new job, it turns out, we use Gtalk to communicate. That did not thrill me at first. Some days I’m okay with it. At times I’ll try to turn it off, but I do see the value in being able to send someone a message if they’re on the phone and vice versa. Both Boss Lady and the other boss came from AOL, which must be why they like Gtalk so much, but the other boss keeps his gtalk sn private to most of the company and Boss Lady regularly gets annoyed with people who use it to distract her or if they have several chat windows open. I’m actually starting to get annoyed with it myself.
I’m starting to think about declaring a “Go to work in your pajamas AND don’t use Instant Messenger” Day. People would be forced to communicate the old fashioned way: Email.
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