Why do 2 internet geeks sitting right next to each other in the computer lab...

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
We do it at work all the time. Our offices are pretty close together and we all have phones, but we still IM each other or Email.

Yah, same at work here. But calling each other by the Screen Names is a bit much, don't you think?

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: mugs
I've never done that unless I don't want other people to hear what I'm saying. I don't call friends by their IM names... some people do it as a joke though. Some people at my college called each other by their login names too, if they were easily pronouncable. Like any other nickname.

Hey bdh128 are you going to class today?
sao123, lets skip physics to finish calc hw due today.


OMG we did that in college.... NOOOOO IM A COMP GEEK TOOOOOOOO....
SSSSSHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[revnja]

I highly doubt this is shens, people. I knew a married couple who would do the exact same thing. They didn't have a big house, or any reason to do this. They probably could have heard each other speaking from where they were situated, yet they chose to have their personal (read: boring) conversations in a somewhat-public IRC channel. Everything from "Can I have another glass of iced tea?" to "I think Bub has almost learned to walk!".

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: sao123

Hey bdh128 are you going to class today?
sao123, lets skip physics to finish calc hw due today.


OMG we did that in college.... NOOOOO IM A COMP GEEK TOOOOOOOO....
SSSSSHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hah... well I never did it myself, but our usernames were first initial + first seven letters of last name (to resolve conflicts they went farther into the first name and shortened the last name if necessary). And they only did it with people whose names sounded right like that... My first and last initials are both M, so mine would have sounded like just my last name. Someone who had a consonant at the beginning of their first name and a vowel at the beginning of their last name would be ideal - i.e. bafleck.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Verbal communication is SO last century.

Yes.

More like last millennium