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The Atlantic: The Case For Banning Email at Work.

IM does speed things up ... but what if you have about two dozen clients all IM’ing at once?

12/01/11 • 03:07 PM • Computing • Internet • Psychology • Software • (2) Comments

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The nice thing about email is senders don’t expect you to answer immediately. When someone Instant Messages you, they’re expecting you to respond now.

Posted by TomM on 12/01/11 at 04:46 PM

... and if someone gets too chatty, too insistent, day in and day out, it becomes a subtle form of stalking.

Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 12/01/11 at 05:54 PM

 

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