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Ending Conversations

In Thoughts and Rants on 25 March 2005. Tagged .

Ever do that thing where you say a joke and everyone laughs nervously but either don’t really get the joke or think it’s not funny? The nervous laughter is inevitably followed by awkward silence.

In the land of instant messaging, laughing seems to be a convenient conversation stopper. Check your history or log files and you will probably find many conversation threads that end with “hehe”, “lol”, or “:)”.

Next time, if you’re IM’ing with someone who you can’t seem to get rid of, try it out.

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Totally know what you mean. Sometimes I don’t have anything to say, so I just smile. :-)

Posted by Ben on 25 March 2005 @ 7am

For ending IM conversations, I prefer something more definitive, like:
(that’s end-of-thread for the acronym-challenged). :)

Now I’m expecting, an ackward “lol” followed by loss of signal. :)

Posted by mfk on 25 March 2005 @ 9am

why isn’t there any contact mail or im to contact with you in your website?

i tried to contact with you while you were in barcelona but it was impossible
:(

Posted by jorge_bcn on 28 March 2005 @ 12am

We actually did not pass through Barcelona in the January Spain trip that was mentioned on the Cadius mailing list, Jorge. Sorry about the lack of contact information but this site got pushed out ahead of schedule and I never got around to putting that information up. You can contact me at “web at kurioso” though.

Posted by Kevin Cheng on 28 March 2005 @ 12am

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Kevin Cheng is a global nomad who's settled in San Francisco after calling Vancouver, Hong Kong, Austin and London his homes. Founder of Off Panel Productions and OK/Cancel. Product manager at Twitter, former Director of User Experience at Raptr, a social network for gamers, and former designer of Pipes and Bravonation at Yahoo!. Presenter on numerous design subjects. Reachable at kc -at- this domain.

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