I never thought of instant messaging as an in-between of speaking and writing, but the website has a point that since we can revise each line and character, it’s not the same as speaking which is immediate and permanent.
It’s very clever how they set up the website to look and act like online chatting platforms while critiquing and analyzing that way of communicating.
All the different tabs and notification numbers are stressing me out. The random alerts and sounds make me jump every time.
The ellipsis as a way to prevent boredom or keep peoples' attention. Anticipation.
I keep jumping from text to tabs to individual notifications and repeat. Struggling to stay in one place for a long time.
Unsurprised that these platforms are blurring the line between work and pleasure and that constant interaction benefits the people profiting from these platforms.
“At what point does a group chat grow so large that it is no longer an intimate interaction…” is group messaging ever intimate? Larger the group, less intimate.