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I think for Wave to be ultimately successful, they'll have to ditch the "live typing" feature. Typing is a low-bandwidth form of communication, because you los
by megaduck 17y ago
I think for Wave to be ultimately successful, they'll have to ditch the "live typing" feature. Typing is a low-bandwidth form of communication, because you lose all of the other conversational cues (tone of voice, facial expression, etc.) that make sure your proper meaning comes across. Thus, when you're typing to somebody, you often have to double-check what you've written to make sure that it's not taken the wrong way. With live typing, you don't have that option. The cat's already out of the bag before you can reach for the delete key.
I can't count the number of times I've retyped a sentence on IM because the original was too ambiguous and could be misconstrued.
They're going to have to either kill the feature, or turn it off by default.
- ellyagg 17y agoI wish they wouldn't. I always missed that feature from icq and I've never felt self-conscious about missteps and corrections. That is, after all, how talking works.
- tetha 17y agoEven if we talk face to face, you will not be able to read my mind, and how my mind constructs whatever I try to say. Certainly, sometimes I will talk nonsense without enough thought in there, but this happens far less often than _thinking_ nonsense.
- megaduck 17y agoUnless you talk in a monotone, talking and typing are inherently different. Talking has a dramatically higher bandwidth, because you can alter the pitch, stress, and semantic meaning simultaneously. For example, sarcasm is trivial with spoken communication, and remarkably hard in written.