Sociability's value comes from privacy

Blogspam. OP is http://kyrobeshay.com/post/28647196980/being-social-is-about...

Of course, the original post is only one paragraph longer than the boingboing excerpt.

semi-active HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335979

Remember when people used email clients that supported read receipts? ;p

I remember when I was always turning that feature off to avoid people getting irritated with me for not immediately responding because of the state of my queue...

To me it's not that awkward, I have no expectation that everyone else drop what they are doing and meet my needs immediately from a text/IM.

I regard these expectations as very self-centered. It really only takes a small short conversation and most people realize that it's self-centered to expect immediate responses to text/IM.

If someone needs my immediate attention I don't have a problem with them phoning me, or finding me in person. If they expect immediate attention from text/email/facebook then they are choosing to use the wrong communication medium.