Chatter’s guide to real life at Twisted DNA

Chatter’s guide to real life

Published June 27th, 2006

Chat/IM has become so prevalent a medium of communication that some times we may have to remind ourselves how the real world works. Here are a few things chronic chatters have to remember when dealing in real life.

It is not appropriate to ask “asl” when you meet a new person in real life. It is offensive, especially the “s” part.
When you hear something funny it is customary to exercise your facial muscles and exert a laugh. Saying “lol” may not be considered as an alternative
Do not be tempted to enact ROFL
Buzzing, nudging or any other form of physical violence to gain attention generally leads to misdemeanor charges
Do not attempt to have two independent conversations with two people at the same time
If you do attempt the above, bear in mind that, by a phenomenon too complex to explain, the said individuals can hear each other’s conversation. So saying “hi” to one and “the loser is here” to other might lead to unpleasant situations.
There is a no real life equivalent of LMAO. Please do not try to invent one
You can’t leave offliners. So don’t shout something in a guy’s cube when he is not there and expect him to “get it” when he comes back

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15 Responses to “Chatter’s guide to real life”

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1 Shreemoyee Jun 27th, 2006 at 2:51 pm

enacting ROFL might be interesting actually. And chat life and real life are quite different, most people draw line there I think.
2 Anu Jun 27th, 2006 at 5:55 pm

LOL!
3 gnightgirl Jun 27th, 2006 at 9:06 pm

Ha! My son used to give me a dry “LOL, Mom, LOL” whenever I did or said something…not cool enough to meet his standards.
4 Tai Jun 28th, 2006 at 7:15 pm

Rats…I was WONDERING where I was going wrong.

Must of been the LMAO.

Tsk tsk.
5 nithya Jun 29th, 2006 at 7:17 am

LOL!!!
iv been guilty of point #2 on more than one occasion
6 nithya Jun 29th, 2006 at 10:13 pm

hey….i cant see any posts before 12th june…no archives either….
is this it???
7 Twisted DNA Jun 29th, 2006 at 11:04 pm

Shreemoyee: Agreed. I sure do want to watch somebody ROFL
gnightgirl: But he must consider the fact that you have a popular blog a real cool thing, right?
tai: LOL.
nithya: Thanks for pointing out the archives are missing. I messed up the template. I think I fixed it. (Don’t you hate debugging the blog We have enough bugs to deal with at work!)
8 jaygee Jun 30th, 2006 at 3:26 am

You have obviously given the experiment some time and method..:) darn it.. thats why my fren never called me back.. i had just opened his room door and left an offliner..
9 Jamie Jul 5th, 2006 at 1:34 pm

Number 6 had me ROFL
10 Mary Poppins Jul 7th, 2006 at 7:12 am

You forgot LMAO!!

:-) and silly lil’ icons..
11 Twisted DNA Jul 10th, 2006 at 11:20 pm

jaygee: Your friend did call back. He just left you an offliner
jamie: thanks
mary poppins: “ans silly lil’ icons” - I should start carrying around smiley flash-cards
12 Apy Jul 27th, 2006 at 2:39 am

n i m seriously LMFAO.. that was fun…
13 Mindinside Aug 6th, 2006 at 2:36 am

How very funny & how very true ..
LOL!
14 Ashwin Jan 19th, 2007 at 3:32 pm

lol…good one
15 vEENs Nov 14th, 2007 at 1:18 am

Awesome!!

“by a phenomenon too complex to explain, the said individuals can hear each other’s conversation. So saying “hi” to one and “the loser is here” to other might lead to unpleasant situations”

I do this so many times on IMs.

It would be devastating if the other person really gets to know!

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