For people who think chat is pointless, y’all sure do complain about it a lot.
About not being greeted:
You’re not always going to be greeted. It’s just not possible.
If we are in a conversation and someone comes in, usually that conversation stops, then about 15 lines of “hello!” and “hey!” appear. The previous conversation gets lost.
And sometimes, after those 15 lines, someone announces they are going to leave. Then 15 lines of goodbyes show up.
Then someone else enters… and it starts all over again.
Making it a cycle of everyone greeting and saying goodbye takes a toll on conversations we were having. I think that’s why people get so frustrated when they are new to chat. Conversations tend to stop, then nobody knows what to talk about, so it gets quiet.
Chat moves at a pretty fast pace when there are actually people around and if you don’t jump in, or give us a new topic… you’re not going to get noticed. Give us a reason to notice you. Give us something to talk about. Join in the conversation. Say hello, don’t wait for us to say hi to you..
If there is a room full of people, and nobody is talking, then we are all away from the tab with chat on it. With the exception of trolls, we never ignore anyone, unless they manage to slip past our radar. Which is very easy to do. I think most of us have manged to just tune out the notifications that someone new has come in the room.
We like getting to know new people in chat. We really do.. But that can’t happen if people give up on it after coming into the room once…