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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. 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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    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
  2. 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.