The nice thing about seeing 'x is typing...' is that you know they have read your message and have begun to respond. I think a lot of movement from 'typing' to

The nice thing about seeing 'x is typing...' is that you know they have read your message and have begun to respond. I think a lot of movement from 'typing' to not is more distracting than anything. When I'm in a conversation, I really just want to know that my chat partner has read my message and is trying to respond.