{"id":1700,"date":"2008-04-04T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/instant-messaging-for-introverts\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T14:57:26","slug":"instant-messaging-for-introverts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/instant-messaging-for-introverts\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Messaging for Introverts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/article\/9544\">Joe Kissell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/article\/9544\"><p>From time to time, someone I know asks me an ordinary and reasonable question: &ldquo;What&rsquo;s your iChat (or Skype) ID?&rdquo; My usual reply is to give them the information along with a big disclaimer: I&rsquo;m almost never logged in. In fact, let me be completely honest and say I thoroughly dislike instant messaging (IM) except in a few specific situations. For months, I&rsquo;ve been thinking about why this is&mdash;both the technological and psychological aspects&mdash;along with whether it somehow exposes a fundamental character flaw, and whether it&rsquo;s something I should attempt to change. Having experimented with a variety of approaches to instant messaging (as well as its close relative Twitter) and having done a considerable amount of introspection, I&rsquo;m inclined to think that my personality type is fundamentally ill-suited to instant messaging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As another introvert who doesn&rsquo;t like IM, I find the multitasking aspect most bothersome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kissell: From time to time, someone I know asks me an ordinary and reasonable question: &ldquo;What&rsquo;s your iChat (or Skype) ID?&rdquo; My usual reply is to give them the information along with a big disclaimer: I&rsquo;m almost never logged in. In fact, let me be completely honest and say I thoroughly dislike instant messaging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}