{"id":24827,"date":"2019-04-01T16:40:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24827"},"modified":"2019-04-01T16:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:40:14","slug":"texting-means-never-having-to-say-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/texting-means-never-having-to-say-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Texting Means Never Having to Say Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2019\/03\/texting-slack-internet-conversation-goodbye.html\">Jane C. Hu<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=19520618\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2019\/03\/texting-slack-internet-conversation-goodbye.html\">\n<p>I thought about the last time I&rsquo;d actually typed ttfn. I imagine it was at least 18 years ago, on my family&rsquo;s Gateway desktop during the era of dial-up AOL. And then I realized I couldn&rsquo;t remember the last time I said &ldquo;g2g,&rdquo; or even &ldquo;bye,&rdquo; in an online conversation. I asked some friends in a group chat if they ever say goodbye when chatting digitally. &ldquo;They never really have a beginning. Do they also not have an end?&rdquo; said my friend Dan. Another friend, Mitch, chimed in with a diagnosis: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s because we never go offline anymore.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In a 2016 study, many respondents say they read into a lack of response. It&rsquo;s especially confusing when your conversational medium tells you if someone is currently online, or has already read your messages, like the &ldquo;read&rdquo; labels in iMessage, the green dot by your name in Slack, or the blue tick mark on WhatsApp messages. &ldquo;When WhatsApp introduced the blue tick [that shows when you&rsquo;re online], that introduced a lot of anxiety,&rdquo; she says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane C. Hu (via Hacker News): I thought about the last time I&rsquo;d actually typed ttfn. I imagine it was at least 18 years ago, on my family&rsquo;s Gateway desktop during the era of dial-up AOL. And then I realized I couldn&rsquo;t remember the last time I said &ldquo;g2g,&rdquo; or even &ldquo;bye,&rdquo; in an online [&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":"2019-04-01T20:40:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"a28e138b-2c33-4c46-ac05-b48cd2727d0f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-04-01T20:40:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aoo4TiywzTEasBbSM0nJ9Dw","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":[140,31,30,1393],"class_list":["post-24827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-imessage","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-short-message-service-sms"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827","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=24827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24828,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions\/24828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}