The conversation thing

I don’t know about you, but I have Ymess since 1998. So that makes approximately 10 years … OMG, until I wrote these words, I did not even realize so much time passed by …

As time went by, I became more and more flooded with people in my messenger list… people that i did not know how to classify anymore… Business, friends, different work places, university … sometimes I have personal friends that I do business with and have done university with … that is a challenge

I know some people have the guts to just delete from their list anyone they have not spoken with in 3 months … I could not do that … so right now I have in my Ymess list 329 ids, categorized into 12 groups. The most relevant groups are only 4, with a total of 56 people…

Hey, Yahoo messenger Project Manager guy … if you are interested in what the consumer would need, please take into considerations these things:

first, groups should have the possibility to include other groups as well

secondly, any contact should have something like tags associated. So when I want to see all business partners, I could see them no matter of what group I’ve listed them in (that would happen, of course, if I correctly and completely tagged my contacts in the Yahoo Messenger list)

Anyway, I do not know how things were possible before, when there was no IMessagging … my entire professional life was accompanied by YM … so I still remember how I was 1 meter away from my colleague, yet, instead of turning to him to tell him something, I would just write on messenger … life is beautiful

Suppose I need to give you a phone call. But we have a very complex relationship - like we are friends, and we also go to the same 7 month training, and we work in the same business for competitors and, in particular, we try to build a project together. So when I call you, you couldn’t tell if it is a private problem, something about the courses we do, or about the project we work on. Maybe I just want to chat with you about the movie I just saw, or it is about important business.

And when I know you would not expect that my phone call would be about urgent business, it would be really nice that I could add a little something, like:

Ruxandra calling
about “X project”

or “this is about tomorrow training” or “about website down” so when you actually pick up the phone you would already know what is about, and in case you miss the phonecall, you would have a hint on what it was that I wanted to tell you about.

hihiiii … just crossed my mind that it might be extremely useful to have this feature on the mobile phones. Because if you are in an important meeting, and my call is for the tonight movie, you would know not to answer, but if it is about crisis ,the situation would change.

Not sure how you would like that, but for me would be immensely helpful in some situations when the phone is ringing like hell and I need some time to adjust from one problem to another as I answer consecutive phone-calls.