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Instant Messaging For Introverts

Posted by kdawson on from the jung-nailed-it-before-meyers-and-briggs dept.

adamengst tips an article up on TidBITS that explores the persistent reluctance of many nerds to embrace fully new communications media such as IM and Twitter. In this thoughtful article Joe Kissell explores, from the inside, the mind of the introvert and how this personality style often struggles with new "always-on" media. The result is a sometimes exasperated incomprehension on the part of the more extroverted. Well worth a read.

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  1. I would get a frist post by Mipoti+Gusundar · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would be getting frist post, bud saddley I am being too shy.

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  2. Re:Marching Morons 2.0 by iBod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey! Why WOULDN'T you want to know what I had for breakfast, what underwear I put on this morning and how many birds I can see on my lawn right now?

    What the hell is wrong with you? Some kind of weird 'introvert' eh?

  3. Re:Not necessarily introverts by Ed+Avis · · Score: 5, Funny

    How thoughtless of them! What could possibly be more important than a multiplayer online game?

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  4. Re:Sorry but the first half of that long post by kv9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I leave Skype on full time these days for Biz purposes, and my GF wants to pop up a chat window every 10 freaking minutes, breaking my concentration shouldn't you be telling her this? also, real nerds use IRC.
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  5. Re:Or some of us are just busy, by Rob+the+Bold · · Score: 2, Funny

    What part of "building an app, family..." is a virtual life? I think that the parent must have been sarcasm, since the poster is certainly aware that landscaping, application development and parenting involve communication. Even us introverts haven't figured out how to reproduce by fission.
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  6. Re:But introverts have a point by necro81 · · Score: 4, Funny

    thoughtful...Facebook
    incongruous?
  7. Re:Sorry but the first half of that long post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Interrupts your work AND doesn't go down well?

    Get a new GF imo.

  8. Re:introverts and IM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have problems with all stages of the speech process.

    To be fair, that's probably because you're a camel.

  9. Re:Or some of us are just busy, by Rob+the+Bold · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tell that to identical twins/triplets/siblings!
    Can't . . . too shy.
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  10. Re:Not necessarily introverts by The+Fun+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, what? Listen, can I get back to you? My other phone is ringing.

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  11. Re:Sorry but the first half of that long post by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 2, Funny
    That doesn't normally go down well.

    That's OK. Neither does his GF.

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