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I feel like instant messaging bridges a lot of the chasm between an email and a phone call. It is immediate, but it does not interrupt as badly as a phonecall.
by douche 10y ago
I feel like instant messaging bridges a lot of the chasm between an email and a phone call. It is immediate, but it does not interrupt as badly as a phonecall. It is persistent (assuming you have an enterprise-grade system that has archiving). It is text, so there are no issues with dialect or pronunciation.
- BeetleB 10y ago>I feel like instant messaging bridges a lot of the chasm between an email and a phone call. It is immediate, but it does not interrupt as badly as a phonecall. I wrote a comment elsewhere, but for me, IM is worse than both. It grabs your attention as immediately as a phone call, but the one who initiates it can leave you hanging wasting more time than a phone call would. If someone called me and started talking to me and then just stopped (without hanging up), that would be a no-no in most places. Yet this is acceptable behavior in IM. If you are using IM and working on something while busily responding to IM's, you are multitasking, which is what I want to avoid. If you need it within a few hours, call me and let me know. Otherwise email me and I'll get to it at some point (usually the same day).
- inimino 10y agoJust turn off the notifications. IM is only an interruption if you let it be one.