While using Instant Messenger, do you...?

You have a point there, Denise_Tung If your going to chat with someone whom you are familiar with, you somehow have the privilege of politely disturbing them in a way and the way you do that, with a '' is kind'a different from the usual inquiry. (^_^ ) Thanks for sharing!

lol. Denise.. We have the same opening. "Hi ratyz. I think it depends".. Are we thinking alike? ^^

'I know that they're always busy so them being on YM in the first place means that they have free time to actually chat and catch up' so it would be understood that they were busy before and being online using an instant messenger suggests that they finally have free time, why ask if you know that they are no longer busy? Out of courtesy? I guess you have your own way of utilizing the status feature of the instant messenger that you are using.

Wouldn't it be better if they'd go straight to their email to check mail than to log into their instant messengers while doing something that would indeed get them busy? On late replies, the replies getting delayed already implies that they are occupied with something, right? Then again, asking would also be a good turn to start a new conversation if something does get mentioned after being asked..

why ask? Well they're probably doing something and just logged in for a few minutes to check their mail when I butted in. Sometimes the friend does need to do something or would be in the middle of doing something but would welcome any interruptions thats why the status is 'Available'. Asking if their busy or currentl doing something important would fill in the explanation if their replies are a bit/quite delayed. Yeah, I guess..

I see, so you mostly have close friend on your instant messenger list that you can just give a BUZZ!!! everytime you want to chat with any of them.. I guess you guys are close enough to do that and logging on Instant Messenger for you guys would do mean that you guys aren't busy (^_^ ) That sounds really nice!

Most of my good friends are now living abroad... so yahoo chat and friendster are the only ways that we communicate... i think i talk to them more often than my friends who are here in my city...

Well, we can't help it when people who are literally closer to us feel more distant than the ones who are really living at a different country.. I mean, the necessity to reach out isn't as dire when we're just within a known place compared to a situation that the space in between would include more than just bus rides (^_^")

Well, there're those few people who share a similar timeline, though they're usually either busy with work (offline) or just busy, period. *Sighs* As I've said earlier, I'm the only Filipino in the group. Been thinking about getting more people to use MSN just so I could have someone to talk to. .

Wouldn't you be able to broadcast your username on your profile among forums or sites that you join? wouldn't that work? I mean, some of the sites that I do get to join allows users to broadcast their usernames on whichever Instant Messenger they could use.

You mostly do it out of habit, I guess (^_^") That's okay, a sign of courtesy on your part and just taking precaution if they are indeed busy or not, I mean, if you never get the chance to chat with them often and by the time that both of you are logged in, they might be busy and could really make it regrettable if you didn't even at least tried to greet them. Well, if you have difficulty on chatting with those foreigners in your list, you probably have a list of those that you share with the same time frame

I guess it does get annoying when others seem to be repeatedly courteous enough to ask things that are really obvious. 'Are you busy?' while logged in on an instant messenger.. that busy icon on the status should really make things clear but, they just still want to make sure by asking. (^_^") That part wherein they'd seem busy but actually were just chatting with someone else who is also online, I tend to sense that whenever I get to chat with someone and then suddenly, they don't reply as quick as they would.. they could inform me that they have to do something but, suddenly not replying for a few moments makes me think that they were chatting with someone else. Not that I have any right to be annoyed but, I do get vexed just by thinking (-_-") Yeah, when the tables are turned and they think that we are the ones who are busy for not being able to carry a conversation, they'd think that we are busy with something. Well, comparing it with the previous vexation that they might be chatting with someone else, they too might be thinking the same way.. though, in retrospect, they too might be not that motivated to chat with us.. now that does seem disappointing too (-_-") That's indeed an odd question, I mean, sleep walking it rather something common to hear about but, 'sleep chatting?' to be asked if you are sleeping while being logged in an instant messenger.. The odd things that others get to ask, well, I can't deny asking or inquiring things like that myself but, being overly cautious than thinking if its appropriate is rather too much. Messages that start with 'Your probably sleeping..' or 'Your probably busy.. wouldn't get replies from me since I wouldn't be able to read them in the first place if I was indeed busy or asleep.. so they shouldn't be angry the next day and ask why I didn't reply to their messages [b](_

oh... and I also hate when people ask me if they can ask me a question... well they didn't give me much of a choice right there now did they?

I would be one of those who'd appreciate being 'buzzed' for a chat. (^_^") Hehehe, yeah, they woudl do that but, I would often retort in my head, 'why log in if your busy?!' whenever they do reply that they are busy.. I woudl come up with different scenarios wherein they are actually chatting with someone else or they just logged in to see if the one that they intend to chat with would also be logged in or not at all.. (^o^ )

I also don't like to keep them from anything that they are currently doing.. It might be possible that they were really waiting for someone else to be online and talk to them after all.. At some cases, if they don't ask if I am busy, they would just comment on the status that I have put up while being logged on to that instant messenger wherein the conversation could start instead of just saying 'hi!', 'hello!' or 'Are you busy?'(^_^ ) Thanks for sharing!

You are right on that aspect, both of you should be free to be able to log in an instant messenger just to have that conversation. Yet, we all have different priorities and different free times so, sending those email messages still has its conveniences as others could really get to read them when they do have free time. Thanks for sharing!

So far, you and Denise_Tung have started with that response. (^_^ ) Yeah, I sometimes do that too when I was still in college, I wouldn't like to be bothered by some of my classmates but would surely like to bother those that I would want to talk to. Often, start with 'are you busy?' as polite as I could. With close friends, I'd often just comment on their status, as long as I could comment on them even when their is that busy symbol, I'd just relate my opinion and then apologize for interrupting them about anything that they would have reason to use the busy icon in the first place but, luckily, some of them reply back and explain that they too don't want to be bothered by some people in particular and I would be not among them (^_^") Thanks for posting!

Hello bestie! I would make a guess that you are at work while logging in on instant messengers, I mean, you did state that you yourself would be busy with something.. You only chat with one person whenever you get online, was it like that ever since 'cause chatting with someone could make you indeed busy to be not able to spare time on others that you could also have a chat with.

Yeah, maybe even if they are indeed busy, they just happen to have logged into their IM accounts out of habit whenever they get the chance to use a computer with an internet connection. (^_^ )

Hi sarazeng! (^_^ ) It seems that you are courteous to those that you get to chat online while logged in on Instant Messengers. Would they also do that same gesture whenever friends of yours would want to chat with you?

Is that uzzap really more convenient or you still have to maintain a certain amount of credits in your mobile phone?