MSN

Just had a quick thought... i'm sitting on msn and i'm looking at the different ways that different people approach the layout of their replies on the screen. Some type a word or two then send it, then typea couple more words then send it, so their replies come in short bursts that take up a lot of room vertically on the screen. Others such as myself prefer to type the whole paragraph of what they want to say before sending it, however this makes it looks like a much larger chunk of text, and takes up room horizintally, not vertically.

eg: (note the difference in style betwee chief big science and lanie my schnookems, lanie has vertical style, science has the one bigger line horizontal approach)
[Chief Big Science] - - says:
yeah i put some on myself once and that were fine until they broke and were like as sharp as knives then they weren't much fun
LANIE MY SCHNOOKEMS.... IVE HAD TO MUCH SUGA BABE(haha bec!!) says:
yeh me to ive had bad experiences wit fake nails
LANIE MY SCHNOOKEMS.... IVE HAD TO MUCH SUGA BABE(haha bec!!) says:
they hurt so much
LANIE MY SCHNOOKEMS.... IVE HAD TO MUCH SUGA BABE(haha bec!!) says:
especially if ur campin nd ur tryin to roll up an anex...
LANIE MY SCHNOOKEMS.... IVE HAD TO MUCH SUGA BABE(haha bec!!) says:
bad move


So, this is something I was always conscious of, the difference today is that I realised the connection between this and performance poetry. Some people cut their sentance up in terms of what should be said in one breath, others write the whole line, more like prose. I am a prose msn'er, the person I am talking to on msn at the moment is a serial performance poet msn'er... and it's annoying having to scroll up to see where her damn sentance starts. It is also to do with the difference between people who write impulsively, and those who understand where their sentance will end. An interesting concept really, that could possibly be applied to things outside of msn...?

This would be an explaination for why it worked so well when I put narrator onto my msn convo a few weeks ago - it must like the style where it can pause a lot. I'm thinking of using narrator/speaksonia msn convos in some kind of artwork but the idea is still floating around in the air, not entirely catchable at the moment.

yeah... ok... sorry.