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Wired magazine once defined the 'onosecond' as the time between hitting 'send' and realising that you really didn't mean to send that to your granny.

What inappropriate email/text/photo have you sent to wrong people? Are they speaking to you any more?

(, Thu 26 May 2005, 10:15)
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Messenger
If you're careful enough, you learn to avoid the 'onosecond'. The real evil is Instant Messenger programs. You know, a window pops up, you start talking, another pops up, you put a reply in the wrong one.

I once made a moaning comment about the fact that my colleague who sits next to me does absolutely no work. Except he had just messaged me about some musical crap, and I put the response in his window. Cue the most bare-faced lie ever to weedle my way out. I'm not sure if he sussed me out or not.

Top tip for e-mails: train yourself to always enter the mailing address at the end, then accidentally clicking 'Send' (or doing CTRL+S when you only wanted a SHIFT+S for a capital letter) will be a thing of the past.

My post for this week's question is rather boring. Sorry.
(, Thu 26 May 2005, 19:03, Reply)

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