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Depends on the size of the floor/room in question - compare a house with a big open office.
[x] It was about something they needed to remember
…if we were in the same room having a conversation and they said "Can you toss me a link to <foo>?".
*thinks* I ticked the ones where I'd *probably* talk to them on the computer.
However close they were, there's a minority of times when I'd talk to them on the computer anyway: if the conversation were more suited to that[1]; if it less disturbed other people who are concentrating; if it were part of an ongoing conversation with third parties; if I wanted a "paper trail"; if I knew a message would be less intrusive for them; if they'd prefer a message; if it needed to be secret from third parties present; or for humour value.
However close they were, there's a minority of times when I'd talk to them on the computer anyway: if the conversation were more suited to that[1]; if it less disturbed other people who are concentrating; if it were part of an ongoing conversation with third parties; if I wanted a "paper trail"; if I knew a message would be less intrusive for them; if they'd prefer a message; if it needed to be secret from third parties present; or for humour value.
How can you talk to someone in person if you're not even within shouting distance? By phone?
IRC killed my puppy, you insensitive chatbot.
In an open plan office it's much less disruptive to everyone's concentration to use IM or e-mail than to talk.
[x] If it was about something they needed to remember.
[x] If it was part of a conversation including other people who weren't so close.
[x] If we were in the same room having a conversation and they said "Can you toss me a link to ?".
[x] If I didn't want someone else to overhear.
[x] If I didn't want to disturb someone else by shouting.
[x] If it was funny.
I have texted people while in bed with them, though not while "in bed" with them.
[x] If it was part of a conversation including other people who weren't so close.
[x] If we were in the same room having a conversation and they said "Can you toss me a link to ?".
[x] If I didn't want someone else to overhear.
[x] If I didn't want to disturb someone else by shouting.
[x] If it was funny.
I have texted people while in bed with them, though not while "in bed" with them.
I don't have computer access in bed.
*hugs* Sorry. (But do I love feeling useful like that.)
At work I use Skype all the time to talk to co-workers to minimise disruption (and also to gossip :p), but I do still sometimes go to people's desks when I can't be bothered to type out what I need help with.
At House! I used the IM in Warcraft to talk to Pete, whose PC was downstairs in the lounge. We can't get away with that in Spontaneity, since our PCs are next to each other ;)
At House! I used the IM in Warcraft to talk to Pete, whose PC was downstairs in the lounge. We can't get away with that in Spontaneity, since our PCs are next to each other ;)
:)
(Also obviously, my comment wasn't meant to imply that I'd never go talk in person to someone somewhere else, merely that for brief conveyancing of information, IRC may be superior; for socialising it obviously depends :))
(Also obviously, my comment wasn't meant to imply that I'd never go talk in person to someone somewhere else, merely that for brief conveyancing of information, IRC may be superior; for socialising it obviously depends :))
Oh yes, xxxxx. I've often emailed someone something they need to remember when they ARE me :)
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damerell via Puzzle Pirates when sitting right next to him in his very tiny study...
damerell via Puzzle Pirates when sitting right next to him in his very tiny study...I have texted people while in bed with them, though not while "in bed" with them.
To say what? "Are you awake?" "If we had done it, would it have been good 4 U 2?" :) (Although seriously, slightly puzzled.)
To say what? "Are you awake?" "If we had done it, would it have been good 4 U 2?" :) (Although seriously, slightly puzzled.)
I love that the responses are still monotonic. Apparently you were sufficiently specific.
At work I use IM a lot. As the IM client keeps a log in a Lotus Notes database, old conversations can be searched easily. Very handy for proving that users lie. A lot.
I'm autistic and don't like talking to people, you unobservant, socially unaware... oh, wait. Nevermind.
I need at least one hand to type with.
Perhaps if the other was solidly asleep and you wanted to ask them a Q that you would forget in the morning. So the text is more of a maildrop.
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