It's funny, I was just thinking the other day about a habit that I have when initiating an instant message conversation out of the blue, generally in the contex

It's funny, I was just thinking the other day about a habit that I have when initiating an instant message conversation out of the blue, generally in the context of either work or an acquaintance that I rarely contact. I find myself typing out the whole message, greeting included. However, as that might look a bit too much like a wall of text on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or the like, I tend to cut the question just before sending the greeting, and paste and send the question (or conversation context) immediately after. So, my messages will look something like this: - Mordisquitos is typing - # Ctrl-X [20:12] Mordisquitos: Hi ${oldAquaintance}! How's it going? # Ctrl-V [20:12] Mordisquitos: Are you in ${homeTown} these days? I'm here till Sunday, so if you're here we could meet if you want! Or like this: - Mordisquitos is typing - # Ctrl-X [10:03] Mordisquitos: Good morning ${coworkerName}! # Ctrl-V [10:03] Mordisquitos: Regarding the issue with cranking the widgets, I had some questions about the timing - Mordisquitos is typing - # The specifics of the question, may take a while I think the reason I do it is out of empathy, assuming that other people might feel like I myself do. Be it out of social anxiety or ADHD, I really hate receiving unexpected contextless greetings and being expected to greet back before knowing what the hell you're writing to me about. Neither am I very happy about seeing an unexpected greeting followed by minutes of a "user is typing", during which my mind is already hopelessly hyperfocused on wondering what it will be. I am well aware though that the time that I'm (perfectionistically) typing my initial message that I will later cut and send, if the user has the application open they may already be seeing the "Mordisquitos is typing" notification before I sent the initial hello, which could be even worse. I think sometimes I've even gone as far as typing out my greeting+message on a text editor beforehand.