(user) is typing a message...

[rh71]

Don't you hate when people don't have this enabled with their instant messengers ? You're waiting and waiting and you don't know if they're in the middle of typing a response to you... :|

In Trillian... go to your Preferences --> Identities & Connections tab --> go into the connection properties and there's a Privacy tab. AIM clients have the privacy tab somewhere also. You can do eeeeeit!

 

[woowoo]

<--No IM for me 🙂

 

[Tylanner]

i think its invasion of privacy

 

[BrokenVisage]

I like it actually.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Why don't you call her daddy and ask him if you can come over instead of chatting with her. (just be sure not to do it on a school night....she might have a test in her 4th grade math class tomorrow)

 

[300MDemon]

I've got mine purposely disabled.

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: 300MDemon
I've got mine purposely disabled.

 

[leftyman]

so she blew you off, huh?

 

[rh71]

The point is a lot of people don't even know that theirs is disabled (by default). It should be a very visible option and it's not. 🙁

 

[rh71]

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[NikPreviousAcct]

I like it. I have it turned on. It's not a big deal if someone leaves a letter in the typing box and it's telling me that they're sending a message when they really aren't. A lot of the time in conversation (if they're active and not just sitting there for hours), I'll hold off responding until I see their reply. 🙂 I like it.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: leftyman
so she blew you off, huh?

I'm married... and I don't chat with people I don't know... not since I was 15 at least. I'm simply tired of waiting on slow typers... I don't want to be waiting around if they aren't typing a response.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: leftyman
so she blew you off, huh?

I'm married... and I don't chat with people I don't know... not since I was 15 at least. I'm simply tired of waiting on slow typers... I don't want to be waiting around if they aren't typing a response.

Crap...you just blew my "dating a young girl online" joke. 😛 No fun.

 

[drum]

i use trillian and it was on by default, at least i've never changed a setting to have to enable it

 

[Leper Messiah]

Originally posted by: drum
i use trillian and it was on by default, at least i've never changed a setting to have to enable it

 

[rh71]

I see the option in Trillian now... go to your Preferences --> Identities & Connections tab --> go into the connection properties and there's a Privacy tab.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: 300MDemon
I've got mine purposely disabled.

why though ? You don't have to type anything if you don't want them to know you're there.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: rh71
Don't you hate when people don't have this enabled with their instant messengers ? You're waiting and waiting and you don't know if they're in the middle of typing a response to you... :|

In Trillian... go to your Preferences --> Identities & Connections tab --> go into the connection properties and there's a Privacy tab. AIM clients have the privacy tab somewhere also. You can do eeeeeit!

Not all IM protocols support this.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Tylanner
i think its invasion of privacy

Are people so anal about privacy that they feel the need to hide from a person whether or not they're typing a message TO THAT PERSON?

 

[Agnostos Insania]

For some reason Trillian seems to randomly switch between "___ is typing a message" and "___ has entered text."
I'm assuming there's a difference, maybe the latter activates after a set amount of time, but it seems to not work quite often.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: rh71
Don't you hate when people don't have this enabled with their instant messengers ? You're waiting and waiting and you don't know if they're in the middle of typing a response to you... :|

In Trillian... go to your Preferences --> Identities & Connections tab --> go into the connection properties and there's a Privacy tab. AIM clients have the privacy tab somewhere also. You can do eeeeeit!

Not all IM protocols support this.

sorry I should've mentioned AIM and MSN Messenger. Those were the ones I'm referring to. MSN does it by default.

I wonder what Yahoo Messenger does. I know ICQ was the first with this ability way back when...

 

[CraigRT]

I couldn't care less

 

[Saint Nick]

Any way to turn it on in MSN/Windows Messenger?

 

[CtK]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: 300MDemon
I've got mine purposely disabled.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: jndietz
Any way to turn it on in MSN/Windows Messenger?

it's already on... there needs to be a hack to turn it off from what I've seen...