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I loved this feature when I first experienced it in Google Wave. I don't think it belongs everywhere, but exactly as the article author says, it makes the conve

by dguo 6y ago

I loved this feature when I first experienced it in Google Wave. I don't think it belongs everywhere, but exactly as the article author says, it makes the conversation feel smoother and more like I am actually talking to someone in real life because I can think about what they are saying as they are typing it. In a real life conversation, you digest in real time as you hear the other person. You don't have to wait for chunks of their thoughts.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
(Talking about Google Wave) I liked it in theory! In practice it felt super awkward and almost privacy-invasive, but I think that's because we weren't use to it. If it became commonplace, it would ultimately seem more natural.
hombre_fatal 6y ago
All it did was have two people ditch what they were writing and perpetually respond to what they thought the other person was writing.
- dguo 6y ago
  When it worked out well though, there was an incredible feeling of being in sync with the other person.
dunnevens 6y ago
I never used Wave much, but I'm old enough to have used (the shell program) Talk many, many times to communicate with my friends on the university system. I really hated the live typing feature. In order not to seem rude, you had to focus on the conversation so you were ready to respond as soon as the other person was done. You had to be patient with the typos and slow typing of some people. And even if the deleted parts of the conversation had relevant information, you had to at least pretend to ignore whatever was typed & deleted. It had all the limitations of online communication (no facial cues, no body language, no tone of voice) but didn't have the good grace to be asynchronous which would let you do more than one thing at a time. It was so frustrating to be stuck in one place staring at letter after letter slowly appearing. It felt like all the disadvantages of an in-person conversation without any of the advantages. It was such a relief when I finally convinced friends to rely more on email or chatting in places like MUDs. And sorry to rant at you a little. It's just I can still remember the frustration vividly after 30 years.
- dguo 6y ago
  No need to apologize. That's a totally valid and understandable take on it.
bemmu 6y ago
I loved this feature in when chatting on bulletin boards. So much so that I wanted to recreate the feeling: http://sysop.chat/ http://sysop.chat/

by dguo 6y ago

Wowfunhappy 6y ago

(Talking about Google Wave) I liked it in theory! In practice it felt super awkward and almost privacy-invasive, but I think that's because we weren't use to it. If it became commonplace, it would ultimately seem more natural.

hombre_fatal 6y ago

All it did was have two people ditch what they were writing and perpetually respond to what they thought the other person was writing.

dguo 6y ago
When it worked out well though, there was an incredible feeling of being in sync with the other person.

dunnevens 6y ago

I never used Wave much, but I'm old enough to have used (the shell program) Talk many, many times to communicate with my friends on the university system. I really hated the live typing feature. In order not to seem rude, you had to focus on the conversation so you were ready to respond as soon as the other person was done. You had to be patient with the typos and slow typing of some people. And even if the deleted parts of the conversation had relevant information, you had to at least pretend to ignore whatever was typed & deleted. It had all the limitations of online communication (no facial cues, no body language, no tone of voice) but didn't have the good grace to be asynchronous which would let you do more than one thing at a time. It was so frustrating to be stuck in one place staring at letter after letter slowly appearing. It felt like all the disadvantages of an in-person conversation without any of the advantages. It was such a relief when I finally convinced friends to rely more on email or chatting in places like MUDs. And sorry to rant at you a little. It's just I can still remember the frustration vividly after 30 years.

dguo 6y ago
No need to apologize. That's a totally valid and understandable take on it.

bemmu 6y ago

I loved this feature in when chatting on bulletin boards. So much so that I wanted to recreate the feeling: http://sysop.chat/ http://sysop.chat/