Online Everywhere: Evolving Instant Messaging Practice

The document summarizes the results of an online survey of 447 mobile instant messaging users. The survey focused on how users manage interruptions from instant messages and their status setting behaviors. Some key findings include: - 92% reported being interrupted by IMs, with 25% witnessing presentations interrupted and 5% having their own presentations interrupted. - 78% had received embarrassing IMs and 80% had witnessed embarrassing IMs sent to others. - 43% had strategies for managing interruptions like blocking buddies or using fake statuses, while 15% had stopped using IM for a period. - Reasons for sending IMs were mostly social or for coordination, though 18% said "just". - 90