I'm over here!

[ewx]

[Poll #1164002]

Comments

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Depends on the size of the floor/room in question - compare a house with a big open office.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

[x] It was about something they needed to remember

[imc.livejournal.com]

…if we were in the same room having a conversation and they said "Can you toss me a link to <foo>?".

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*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.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

How can you talk to someone in person if you're not even within shouting distance? By phone?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

IRC killed my puppy, you insensitive chatbot.

[fanf]

[x] If it was part of a conversation including other people who weren't so close.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

In an open plan office it's much less disruptive to everyone's concentration to use IM or e-mail than to talk.

[lnr]

[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.

[songster.livejournal.com]

I don't have computer access in bed.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

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 ;)

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

I have talked to damerell via Puzzle Pirates when sitting right next to him in his very tiny study...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I love that the responses are still monotonic. Apparently you were sufficiently specific.

[hotbadgerdeluxe.livejournal.com]

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.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I'm autistic and don't like talking to people, you unobservant, socially unaware... oh, wait. Nevermind.

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

I need at least one hand to type with.

[gerald_duck]

I don't have a laptop.

I do, however, have a well-evolved sense of irony about geek stereotypes.

What about talking to a nearby person but also more distant people?

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

So the art of real life conversation is dead is it? Sigh...

[nevboo.livejournal.com]

I need an "if it was more likely to get a response!" option

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

Argh! I just went and gave the inverse of the answers I wanted to give - I'll read it more carefully next time. Sorry!

just a minute...

[uon.livejournal.com]

IRC and IM are asynchronous. Actually talking to someone via voice or phone is very synchronous.