Patri's Peripatetic Peregrinations

I M Watching U

Jul. 15th, 2004 at 8:56 PM

Most Instant Messenger users broadcast when they sign on, sign off, go idle, and flag themselves as away. This presence information is typically innocuous, useful for knowing if your buddies are available to chat. But when monitored continuously, over long time periods, those few signals tell a lot. This website lets you record and analyze anybody's IM activity.
[imwatching.net]

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inferno0069 wrote:

Jul. 15th, 2004 09:15 pm (UTC)

Interesting. I'm at least going to have to monitor myself.

Unfortunately, they got their timezone field's comment wrong. "UTC-5 is EDT". I don't know why it bugs me so much when people get that wrong, but grr.

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