The relic of desktop chat apps is the away message. This feature helps keep your online connections separate from your real life. Now that we have computers in our pockets, we no longer have boundaries. The constant anxiety that comes with being connected and available to chat at all times has been replaced by this.
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On this week's Gadget Lab, we talk about how messaging went from casual, asynchronous correspondence to an all consuming attention hog, and how tech companies that shape our correspondence could fix it.
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Lauren has a story about how it is time to bring back the away message.
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