Why I didn’t respond to your instant message
I didn’t actually get it (unlike email, most IM systems have no delivery confirmation, and client/server sync issues are unfortunately quite common).
You have a history of sending me and my team annoying queries that are a waste of our time, so I’m going to pretend the above happened and hope you figure out the “solution” […]
Matthew Rothenberg is a social technologist at Yahoo!, now doing product strategy and management on the Flickr team. A New York City expatriate, he is currently slumming it in the SF Bay Area. For more info, visit