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I was a little amused to see that at my nutritionist's office they use some form of IM (MSN Messenger?) to talk between the offices and reception, rather than the phone. It confused me for a moment, though, when the receptionist said, "I'll let ______ know that you're here", and then nothing seemed to happen.

I wonder, though, do they ever find themselves slipping into netspeak? Is there a supreme over-abundance of smileys? Do any of them use it for personal conversations, too, and accidentally send the wrong message? I don't know if that would work for me - I'm not sure I could actually have an IM conversation that didn't involve liberal uses of the words 'dude', 'seriously', 'heh', and 'meep'.

Well...

Date: 2004-02-12 08:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gmajor.livejournal.com
It does have the benefit of being somewhat less disruptive than a phone ringing, but...

Re: Well...

Date: 2004-02-13 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarcasma.livejournal.com
Oo, plus, to those people still out there (and they are still out there) who are totally computer/IM unsavvy, it must seem like they're sending the message telepathically! Which would be good for Waiting-Room Crowd Control By Fear.

Date: 2004-02-12 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goovie.livejournal.com
we have a similar thing here, and it's a useful work tool sometimes, but its main purpose is for chatting with [livejournal.com profile] somepeople. :)

Date: 2004-02-13 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tinkerer.livejournal.com
I'm not sure I could actually have an IM conversation that didn't involve liberal uses of the words 'dude', 'seriously', 'heh', and 'meep'.

I once wrote a program called meep. It incurred the wrath of all of my friends and colleagues. (I never used it on my enemies.)

[Sorry — I'm in a mood to toss random, unrelated comments into people's journals this evening! :)]

Date: 2004-02-13 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magwhore.livejournal.com
IM is our office standard for communication. Mostly because the people I work with either work from home or from our office in NYC. But we also chat within this office. My office is generally super unprofessional anyway but we keep it pretty good on IM though we also use it for gossip and bitching about the boss while he's on the phone chewing us out. Also, since we do software programming it's very very handy for giving out instructions or explanations which you can then log and keep for later (either blackmail or actual helpfulness).

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