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If I receive a message that says "Hi", I'll respond with something like "Hello", but I'm not going to sit there staring at the chat window watching them type a
by ravitation 8y ago
If I receive a message that says "Hi", I'll respond with something like "Hello", but I'm not going to sit there staring at the chat window watching them type a message... I'll swap back to what I was doing until I see whatever their next message is... I also probably won't make a website to try to change an otherwise ubiquitous social practice because it slightly hurts my productivity...
- kelnos 8y agoI guess it just doesn't bother you as much as it does others. I absolutely hate needless interruption, and every time I get a "hello" without anything else substantive, it means an extra interruption that wastes my time. I often won't switch back to what I was doing after replying to the "hello", because my brain is doing a little wager, hoping that the question is short and quick to type out, because doing two mini context switches back and forth is tiring. And if my brain loses that wager, I end up sitting there idle for longer than I'd like. It's funny how there's so much attention being paid to social niceties in this thread when a simple social nicety is learning how to best communicate with people on an individual basis. And I think that's even more important when the purpose of sending a message to someone is to ask for their help with something. If you're asking someone to take time out of their day to help you, doesn't it make sense to do your best to respect their time, on their terms?
- ravitation 8y agoIt certainly is important to respect others time, but I wonder if at a certain point people will stop asking the person who is annoyed by "hello" questions.