I mean, I see chats as one continuous conversation and unless the conversation has been properly ended, it shouldn’t be necessary even if a night has passed.
I see chats as one continuous conversation
Well there is your answer.
If you would view them as individual conversation then putting a greeting at the beginning of each makes perfect sense.
If there’s been a pause of several hours, people consider it a new conversation. “Good morning” implies that the speaker assumes other participants have slept overnight.
Oh I see, even if chats are organised by person, the conversation has ended (even if improperly) if X time has passed. So people organise mentally the conversations as individual interactions, it is the social component that overrides the digital organisation.
I think I get your point.
Thank you.
It’s also just a way to ping you and see if you’re there and ready to continue a conversation politely / small talk and a way to start talking again.
That’s a bold assumption!
Most people consider conversations ended if neither party adds anything for a space of time.
A reasonable space of time is definitely overnight.
It lets the other person know you are up and available for chatting in case there was anything they want/need a quick response to.
To synchronise.
Synchronize what?
It announces “I have returned to the chat, and am available for messages or have something I wish to tell you, and am checking for your availability”
But chat are asynchronous, availability is not important
Whether or not a response is time-sensitive varies.
That’s why instead of “good morning” I just send SYN
wake up, time for some SYN 😈
A lot of people literally wish you have a good morning. Those are saying this because they like you and hope all is going smooth for you.
Some people like saying good morning. Maybe the chat is just a handy channel to say good morning to you.
If you’re talking within the same day, I would consider it fine to continue talking.
…But if you’re talking overnight or longer, I feel like you need a greeting of some kind to acknowledge that the time has passed. I wouldn’t call it rude not to, but it’s an extra pleasantry.
It’s interesting how some things have changed over the years when it comes to chat rooms. And how other things haven’t. When I first started in The Palace the internet was new, and chat rooms were for shut-ins, agoraphobes, and nerds. We basically lived on the internet. So it made sense to some to treat the room as a place you entered and left.
Now you can sit on a discord server on mobile and have a life, pop in the middle of a conversation somewhere and then leave it. And some servers still suggest you greet a room like you live there.
It’s like, when I was a kid, having internet access to all human knowledge, anywhere, would have been a divine gift. Now we all have computers in our pockets and some people still argue about basic facts that can be resolved instantly. We treat technology very strangely.
The same reason we do it face to face. We’re dead inside and have nothing to add.
To me someone saying good morning in a group chat is usually a bit of a fuck you to other members that aren’t having a good morning.
