It is like a natural shared feature, rooted in the interactive interface of the major chat software.
The “chat indicator” has narrowed the distance on the line, but it also magnifies our emotions
“The other party is typing…” is not the only popular “chat reminder”. You must have seen the read/unread receipt, the message has been delivered, who has seen your homepage, and you see it again. Whose home page and so on.
In essence, they all record the traces of the user, thereby enhancing the interactive feedback of online social interaction.
But now, the existence of the “chat reminder” has long been given a subtle meaning, such as the pause time is too long, or the message is ignored, it will lead to “hidden”, “being perfunctory” and so on. Feeling, more serious will be interpreted as “friends.”
After all, we can no longer use the “invisible” or “do not disturb” way to create a “not online” reason for ourselves as we used to talk about QQ. In this machine, everyone will leave WeChat as a communication. In the era of “always on”, “the other party is typing…” is not so much a tool for “confirming online”, but rather a proof that the relationship between the other party and you is good or bad.
Even if the person who saw the message didn’t want to force the social at this time, or if he planned to reply in a free time, but for the person who sent the message, “Second Back” is obviously the most expected to see. As a result, unless you directly type the phrase “I am a little busy now”.
David Auerbach also admitted that the design of “The other party is typing…” still has shortcomings, and it still cannot solve the immediacy of online chat.
“It just foreshadowed an upcoming event, but it left us room for guessing and thinking; it will make you inevitably build up a kind of expectation, but you will always be disappointed Because the answers given by others are not necessarily what you want.”
But some experts also said that providing expected feedback for easing someInterpersonal communication still helps, and the key to understanding the meaning of these indicators lies in the relationship between you and the chatter.
Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington, USA Naomi S.Baron said that for parents, they would like to see flashing tips when chatting with their children, which means the child has read his message and Start responding, then just wait patiently.
But without these indicators, people may be more at a loss.
Emotional anxiety is hard to break even if not prompted
Face to face, people tend to get instant responses, but with chat software, you can spend time sorting out your thoughts and choosing to respond to each other at an appropriate point in time.
This is the convenience brought by social networking, but now it has become a problem that requires us to spend more time to deal with.
The New Republic magazine is in an article The article pointed out that the existence of “the other party is typing…” is accelerating the pace of our chat in a disguised form. The written language and spoken language need a conversion process, and the prompter brings an unnecessary anxiety, not every Individuals are willing to write all they want.
The prompt is two-way, and the other party in the chat will involuntarily set up the expectation according to the flashing duration of the “the other party is typing…”, predicting the length of the content you may send, but in many cases, this may just be a bunch of Then the words are repeatedly pressed to show the deletion of the key, as if you can see the other side thinking about the long story but want to stop, and finally only reply to the word “good”.
