It's like when someone asks you something over IM instead of over email, even though it isn't time sensitive. That's an interesting perspective. I think that e

It's like when someone asks you something over IM instead of over email, even though it isn't time sensitive. That's an interesting perspective. I think that explains some people's behavior. I tend to think of IM as in please reply in the next day or so, and email as in please reply in the next week or two. I'm always telling people to not say hi in an IM and then wait for me to reply, because if I'm busy I'm not going to reply until later, but then you might not be there, and if you had asked whatever you needed in the first message I could be answering it now