Discussion

• @laurengoode Chaotic Goode on x

  “Asynchronous” messaging is no longer; we are all walking live chats. And we are messaging maniacs. I see only one solution to this problem https://www.wired.com/...

• @carnage4life @carnage4life on x

  We went from Slack replacing email to us wanting all the benefits of email in Slack. Not being always on is a feature. The Do Not Disturb mode on iMessage is the closest I've seen to taking back our attention from messaging apps. Everyone should copy it. https://www.wired.com/...

• @blanketboat Jessica Blankenship on x

  There's no opinion about online life i hold more strongly than our need for away message functions on all social media. It would make breaks from social media feel less social isolating, and boost the mental health bottom line for users by making it less stressful to unplug. http…

• @entirelyamelia Amelia Gapin on x

  This is really good. I think a lot about how people more than a few years younger than me don't even know about the concept of not having always on (you) messaging. Weird. https://twitter.com/...

• @amzam Amanda Zamora on x

  YES. Please bring back a communications culture that begins with a soft knock on the door or the “hey, you free?” — the truth is platforms prefer the line between real-time and async comms to be fuzzy because it means more engagement (addiction) for them. https://www.wired.com/..…

• @basche42 @basche42 on x

  AIM was the greatest product of all time and Away Message was the greatest feature Imagine if AIM had been able to survive the interregnum between web1 and web2... https://twitter.com/...

• @kifleswing Kif on x

  The asynchronous hill I'll die on is that Slack and other work chats should be desktop-oriented — not on your phone https://www.wired.com/...

• @editorialiste @editorialiste on x

  cosigned, forever and ever *~*DoN'T cRy bEcAuSe iT's oVeR sMiLe BeCaUsE iT hAppEnEd*~* https://twitter.com/...

• @shiraovide Shira Ovide on x

  Heck yes to this. But also...have we just collectively given up on the idea that we can ever be out of reach? https://twitter.com/...

• @awinograd Alec Winograd on x

  @MikeIsaac Back in the day you used to be able to “inspect element” on the Facebook website to read the full message as they just truncated it in CSS. I miss those days

• @waltmossberg Walt Mossberg on x

  My very smart friend ⁦@LaurenGoode longs for a simpler time when you could post a detailed away message and people would respect it. “Lest I'm perceived by others as a communications curmudgeon, I'll just own up to it: I'm a communications curmudgeon.” https://www.wired.com/...

• @adamokane @adamokane on x

  also: one thing missing from this awesome @LaurenGoode piece about AIM/messaging guardrails is that we could *log off* AIM when looking back at AIM, ppl forget that. our AIM buddies couldn't leave us msgs if we were offline. that alone separates it from every modern msging app ht…

• @alex @alex on x

  i put slack on my work phone, not my personal, and i don't carry the work phone out of the home office Otherwise i would work all the time and burn out in two weeks https://twitter.com/...

• @leah_nylen @leah_nylen on x

  On a recent vacation, I made sure to update my email and Slack out-of-office messages, only to have a bajillion people text/Signal me. I am very in favor of this. https://www.wired.com/...

• @ianmilligan1 Ian Milligan on x

  I know I'm a weird guy who likes Microsoft Teams, but the ability to set a status msg in Teams is kind of like this - colleagues can see I'm on the road/in an all-day meeting/have my head down and judge accordingly. https://twitter.com/...

• @noupside Renee DiResta on x

  @MikeIsaac i would like a “mark unread” feature for chat, too. I currently try not to open things until it's time to respond.

• @mikeisaac @mikeisaac on x

  to that end, ive gotten very good at determining whether the first three words of a text preview in the menu are important or not

• @reneritchie Rene Ritchie on x

  As someone who is always on/responsive to the extent that I'm super annoying to myself and others, I feel all of this @LaurenGoode piece deeply https://twitter.com/...

• @gartenberg Michael Gartenberg on x

  Messaging has become the new phone call. Someone interrupts what I'm doing, often more then once. Then expects an immediate response or you get a “???” After five seconds. Then they're no natural “goodbye” so it can go on and on. https://twitter.com/...

• @mikeisaac @mikeisaac on x

  thank you Lauren for calling this annoying phenom out (Facebook popularized a lot of the changes to “always available” over the years with messaging tweaks) i basically stopped opening new messages until i feel like reading them and maybe responding later https://twitter.com/...

• @tonyromm Tony Romm on x

  as always lauren is right and this is good my unsolicited two cents is that we don't acknowledge enough how the ability to unplug and tune out is now only a luxury afforded to the most privileged among us. attention is labor, and that labor is not distributed equally. https://twi…

• @alex @alex on x

  this is good - I think the pt that all messages are the same now + that we all get too many is correct, what we need is a pan-service way of saying ‘feck off, i am not avail’ https://twitter.com/...