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Ping (instant messaging) etiquette

by JCOctober 29, 2008 Media

We rely heavily on instant messaging, and the Skype client is the current favourite (largely due to the free voice calls and not because of the awkward interface).
When we talk about instant messaging someone these days we say we’ll ‘ping them’. Pinging is a direct reference to the noise most IM clients make when one [...]

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