People who have me added to their iChat buddy list will know my trend of signing in, then promptly signing out. I don’t venture into iChat often to have social conversations with people, that’s what Skype’s for. When I’m seen logging on and off iChat, it’s usually to check if someone I’m looking for is on, if they’re not, I log off.
This trend has become more and more noticeable recently, one of the readers to this blog, Smaran Dayal, decided he’d make a term for my log in log out iChat vogue.
Pull A Wolsey
Verb
1. To log in to an instant messaging service for fewer than 10 seconds and abruptly log out, ignoring a barrage of messages from worshippers of your Internet avatar : Haha, I just pulled a wolsey on you!
One of my major gripes about Apple’s iChat is the lack of an “Invisible” status option. It’s such a small feature, yet one with such a great meaning. iChat’s open-source counterpart Adium has had this feature since as far as I can remember, which I’d love to see incorporated into the next version of iChat.
If Apple include an Invisible status option in iChat, I’ll be able to stay online 24/7, eliminating the dreadful “Pull A Wolsey.”
What are your Instant Messaging rules? Do you stay online 24/7 but use different statuses, or do you just log on for a specific reason?