This user is away: Get a life.

Fellow interweb-ians, perhaps you can help me understand something.

While I too participate in the cutesy/philosophical iChat away messages, I find myself confused at those who have to, day in and day out, use their away message to describe exactly where they are and what they are doing every single moment of the day. “At the store.” “At (fill in name) bar.” “Filling up gas tank at the station across the road and three blocks to the right.”

Are you trying to prove you are busy and popular? Are you willing people to keep tabs on you at all times, and perhaps join you at whatever your inane hobby of the moment and make you less bored so that you no longer have to communicate nonstop with your iChat status? And further, who really cares that you are currently at the farmer’s market but following that will be at Cosi having an iced coffee with skim and 1.5 sugars?

I don’t know about you, but that amount of involvement in each other’s lives just freaks me out and is a large part of the reason people are beginning to shun social networking. Staying in touch is awesome. Becoming voyeurs, not so much. Begging people to be your peeping tom is just a little more…ick. Not to mention that your 24/7 away-message-whoredom is likely frying your computer’s motherboard. Let it sleep once in a while, the world won’t go into chaos not knowing you are currently reading a magazine while drying your toe nails.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go sit in the kitchen and eat some mushroom barley soup. Following that, I will likely take a shower, put on my plaid long jane pjs, and make a cup of my Yogi Gingko IQ tea, which I will sip in my bedroom while browsing eBay. If there’s any changes, I promise to report ASAP!

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