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Re:Texting Means Never Having to Say Goodbye by dmortin on Saturday March 30, 2019 @02:49AM (#19528177)
It's still strange when you write to somebody and you see the person is online, but doesn't reply.

I guess turning off online status completely is the way to go. Maybe it should be off by default. What's the point of showing it if the person can answer anyway when he has the time?

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Re:Texting Means Never Having to Say Goodbye by mlrtime on Saturday March 30, 2019 @08:22AM (#19529048)
The difference before is that people didn't have 24x7 connections, so if they were online it meant they were dialed up and sitting at their computer. Now 'online' means nothing as we're all always online.
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