> "Why would you chat online when you can in real life!?" Never met anyone I worked with well who thought that, even in the 80s (I ran a BBS (on a MSX2 by the

> "Why would you chat online when you can in real life!?" Never met anyone I worked with well who thought that, even in the 80s (I ran a BBS (on a MSX2 by the way, written in Pascal) to communicate with my teammates and my business partner; he was sales and he loved it). I preferably only ever work with engineers so that might explain something. The real great thing about this day and age is that now you can just demand it from anyone; I have noticed that other roles in the company also prefer it vs 'real life' because there is a record of everything. So 'minutes of meeting' is copy/paste/export instead of writing from your very bad and biased memory; the latter is basically built in for many (especially corporate in my experience) people who insist on calls and face to face; it's easier to fudge the details and deflect blame for failure ('but I told you this when we had this little meeting a couple of weeks ago remember?'). And that happens basically all the time; it's nice that you can just search an archive and say ; 'you said x, we did x, x didn't work, own it please, now back to work'. Only in case of deflection or blaming of course; everyone does stuff, no-one needs to be called out but if someone calls someone out while being wrong, it's good to get the facts.