About 10-15 years ago I had to start gently discouraging people from calling me on the phone without an appointment unless it was an emergency. Now I’m having to gently discourage people from texting me unless some real-time coordination like a rendezvous is in progress.
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This line of thought suggests to me that the major divide is not between online and offline. It is between stream escalation vs stream interruption. Here a stream can be understood as a shared situation awareness social information flow with a consensus temporal-fidelity level.
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The background stress level of a stream is a function of the mean time between state updates. Though I tweet a lot, sometimes ~100 a day, I can be off for days or weeks without feeling any FOMO at all.
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Addendum: I missed email on my TeFi scale! Where it’s coupled to scheduling it’s an 8 or so. Otherwise it’s a 5-6.
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Addendum 2: Cat is now meowing at me since it’s feeding time. That’s a push notification I can’t turn off

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Attaching a related newer thread here.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1157697615913312256?s=21 …
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