Gchat

Taken from a Gchat correspondence on 6/5/08:

DevelopmentAsst: You know what Hollywood Assistants like?
AgencyAsst: what?
DevelopmentAsst: Gchat.
AgencyAsst: Totally agree!
DevelopmentAsst: Gchat is so the new AIM.
It's like AIM's hotter, cuter, easier sister
AgencyAsst: It's totally the second wife
DevelopmentAsst: That's so Hollywood
AgencyAsst: Sometimes I feel like I'm cheating on AIM with Gchat
DevelopmentAsst: Me too.
AgencyAsst: Like I'll occasionally talk on AIM but all my attention is focused on Gchat. It’s the only thing on my mind.
I want to shower Gchat with gifts while I just want dinner on the table with AIM.
DevelopmentAsst: hahahahahaha
Gchat is the mistress, but you don't have to pay for her
She's FREE!
AgencyAsst: Totally free.
And looking to please you. You gotta work for AIM. Like a real relationship, ugh.
DevelopmentAsst: Well, it makes it so easy because everything is in one window
AgencyAsst: For real.
DevelopmentAsst: Like you can be checking your email AND chatting. Talk about multi tasking.
AgencyAsst: Tell me about it. I need to be maximizing my online activities. On AIM all you do is chat. Boring.
And speaking of AIM, I used to stalk people's away messages on it. Like all the time.
But now I stalk people's status messages on Gchat.
DevelopmentAsst: I LOVE status messages.
How else would you know what your friends' side projects are?
AgencyAsst: Or what videos are making them guffaw like crazy?
DevelopmentAsst: Isn't it fun when your friend posts a link to their new "comedy" website in their status and it sucks?
And is the furthest thing from funny ever?
AgencyAsst: Not funny, more awkward.
DevelopmentAsst: Yeah, that's the word I was looking for.
AgencyAsst: Because then they'll ask you if you watched it and then you have to lie and say work was crazy busy.
DevelopmentAsst: Yeah, so Gchat gives you warning
it's like the Tornado Alert system
CAUTION - Shitty Side Project ahead! Duck and cover!
AgencyAsst: hahaha, code red for self indulgence.
DevelopmentAsst: You know what else is fun about Gchat?
Group chats.
AgencyAsst: Ooh I love group chats.
Two's company, three's a party
DevelopmentAsst: YEAH
Group chats are especially good for when you're planning for the weekend
Instead of 30 reply-all's, you can just get all of your friends in a room and hash out which shitty bar you're going to hit that night
AgencyAsst: Definitely. Totally easier. It's the Gen Y version of a conference call (and we get enough of those while actually doing work).
DevelopmentAsst: In our office, we do a group chat to decide what we're ordering for lunch
That way the interns can't chime in.
Is that mean?
AgencyAsst: Kind of. Especially since they're the ones who have to pick it up.
But when I was an intern I would never have expected to get a say in where we ate lunch.
DevelopmentAsst: Okay, maybe next time I'll invite them to the group chat.
AgencyAsst: Maybe on their last day.
Make them feel special.
They can write about it in their journal: “and today they actually let me speak! I love Hollywood!”
DevelopmentAsst: Thanks for being my conscious.
Gchat often makes me feel really popular
Like, when I have so many different windows open that it has to start closing some
That's when I feel like the Prom Queen
AgencyAsst: Love it.
And that's the best part of Gchat, if you X out of a window and you go to type that person back the whole convo is still there!
no, "wait, sorry, what'd you say".
that's AIM lingo, not Gchat lingo.
DevelopmentAsst: Although that can be dangerous
AgencyAsst: True. It's like you can never quite escape a conversation.
That's when you go Invisible
DevelopmentAsst: There are some things I've said in Gchat that I'd rather forget
Like when I tried to tell you about my awkward romantic interaction with my cube mate.
And realized that I was typing in the wrong window. And that I sent the whole story to my boss and not you.
AgencyAsst: It happens to the best of us.
DevelopmentAsst: I cannot wait to get CRUUUUNKED tonight.
Oops, wrong IM!
AgencyAsst: Well, you’re lucky it was just me and not someone who judges. :)
DevelopmentAsst: Who are you kidding? Of course you judge. This is Hollywood. Everyone judges. But that's another topic all together...

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