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Feb. 12th, 2004 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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'.
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)Re: Well...
Date: 2004-02-12 09:38 pm (UTC)Re: Well...
Date: 2004-02-13 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-12 08:26 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-12 09:41 pm (UTC)Or possibly I'm just being a slacker. :)
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Date: 2004-02-13 04:03 am (UTC)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! :)]
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Date: 2004-02-13 06:13 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-13 06:32 pm (UTC)This is my favourite thing about IM - the ability to complain about someone while they're still talking to you. :)