I don’t trust people who keep their Skype status on “busy” by default #fridaythoughts

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“Away” is the worst. Those people suck

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Even worse: "Offline" but not actually

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“Away"

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"Away for 21 hours"

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They’re busy browsing fishbowl

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Let me tell you about the monsters who are on DND for most of the day. I am like why are you even online at that point.

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I do busy for maybe a couple of hours at a time when I really need to hunker down and focus with minimal distractions

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As if people even respect the “Busy.” Or maybe I’m just one of these people that use busy too long/often. 🤔

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I never got how you can stay “away” so long. Mine goes to “Offline” after a while...

Away is the worst

Why is away the worst? It’s like the best one for really needing to hunker down and not feel bad about not responding

I keep my status as Away so people can’t tell when I stop moving the mouse or keyboard for five minutes because it’s no one’s business. And I have absolutely 0 regrets.

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