Why people say good morning (or something like that) on chat after a night?
I mean, I see chats as one continuous conversation and unless the conversation has been properly ended, it shouldn’t be necessary even if a night has passed.
If there’s been a pause of several hours, people consider it a new conversation. “Good morning” implies that the speaker assumes other participants have slept overnight.
Oh I see, even if chats are organised by person, the conversation has ended (even if improperly) if X time has passed. So people organise mentally the conversations as individual interactions, it is the social component that overrides the digital organisation.
Most chat people live in the UGT timezone. ;) It’s easier to say morning when joining a chat and evening when you leave then try to figure out the timezone of everybody. That was on IRC.
Most still use it in other chats, when joining the 1st time that day (usually after a night of sleep), you greet.
It's interesting how some things have changed over the years when it comes to chat rooms. And how other things haven't. When I first started in The Palace the internet was new, and chat rooms were for shut-ins, agoraphobes, and nerds. We basically lived on the internet. So it made sense to some to treat the room as a place you entered and left.
Now you can sit on a discord server on mobile and have a life, pop in the middle of a conversation somewhere and then leave it. And some servers still suggest you greet a room like you live there.
It's like, when I was a kid, having internet access to all human knowledge, anywhere, would have been a divine gift. Now we all have computers in our pockets and some people still argue about basic facts that can be resolved instantly. We treat technology very strangely.
It’s fascinating to see and understand the unwritten rules, and have them written. Sometimes a rule it’s obvious to some, others like me, find them just weird.
Here’s the thing, it is weird for today technology, because you never truly go away from the chatroom. But back in the IRC times joining a chatroom was very similar to entering a room, you would only see messages sending from then on, so if you wanted to keep track of a chat you were having after you left you needed to leave your computer connected and online, so it was impossible to know when someone was online and when they just had left the computer on to follow up on a thread that was happening when he went to sleep, so it was a common courtesy, just like saying hello when walking into a room. It was a way of telling people “I’am here now”, but most chatrooms today have an away status you can set.
I agree it doesn’t make sense on discord or whatever, which is why I don’t do it there. But it might be one of those things that people just keep perpetuating because it’s what they always did.
It’s like, when I was a kid, having internet access to all human knowledge, anywhere, would have been a divine gift. Now we all have computers in our pockets and some people still argue about basic facts that can be resolved instantly. We treat technology very strangely.
That reminds me of a quote: Do you remember in the 90s when we thought the issue was lack of access to information? Nope, that wasn’t it.
If you're talking within the same day, I would consider it fine to continue talking.
...But if you're talking overnight or longer, I feel like you need a greeting of some kind to acknowledge that the time has passed. I wouldn't call it rude not to, but it's an extra pleasantry.
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