{"id":977,"date":"2003-12-03T23:49:45","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T23:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/12\/03\/presence_in_im.html"},"modified":"2003-12-03T23:49:45","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T23:49:45","slug":"presence_in_im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/12\/03\/presence_in_im.html","title":{"rendered":"presence in IM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oblivio.com\/road\/03110501.shtml\">I&#8217;ve seen this kind of post before.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>E said that her instant messaging program lets her know when J&#8217;s computer has been idle more than a certain number of minutes, this being information she uses in her speculations about whether J is talking to, emailing, or having sex with the other woman.<\/p>\n<p>I suggested the obvious: Delete him from the program.<\/p>\n<p>She responded with the obvious: This is her only remaining connection to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But even the second time around, it&#8217;s really important to think about this relationship between two people and a technology.  Presence changes behavior, allows new ways of interacting with people.  Yet, what are the psychological and sociological consequences of this?  Fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this kind of post before. E said that her instant messaging program lets her know when J&#8217;s computer has been idle more than a certain number of minutes, this being information she uses in her speculations about whether J is talking to, emailing, or having sex with the other woman. I suggested the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instant-messaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}