How to Annoy People Using Instant Messaging

Excellent post in WebWorkerDaily. I totally identify myself with that. Quoting

• Disregard any presence indicators your colleagues use such as busy or away.
• Never check whether a person has time to chat.
• Don’t set your own presence indicators when you’re busy or away from the computer.
• Don’t pause to give the person a chance to respond
• But when you do pause, expect instantaneous replies.
• Consider instant messaging as a way of getting personal therapy
• Don’t ever use correct capitalization or punctuation
• Expect that IM conversations will always be like phone conversations, with a definite goodbye at the end
• Send large files without asking whether it’s okay
• Sprinkle emoticons liberally into your messages
• Try out all the abbreviations you can think of.

Comments

[Pierre-Olivier]

I can identify myself with that too :-)

One is missing : Making a call on Skype without asking if it's OK on your side... may be it's really noisy where you are, you don't have headers or 3 persons are already in your office :-(

Having more and more efficient tools make people forget it is still communication !

[Julius Seizer]

Hi,

All my Instant Messaging problems disappeared the day I decided enough was enough, I'd lived most my life without IM and I was damned sure I could live the rest of it that way too.

And for once, I was right!

Julius

[Pierre-Olivier]

Really difficult for me as I also work with ?!?