E-mail: I spend way too much time checking it and not enough time dealing with it. I always have at least 400 messages piled up in my work inbox. If some virus were to wipe them all out, I'd probably be better off.
I find e-mail at work to be a very frustrating tool for decision making and even more frustrating for training. When I send out a question, I either get no responses or a whole lot of responses that all conflict with each other.
IM: This can be very useful for quick cataloging questions. However, it seems that the moment someone IMs me with "Got a minute?" I get one or two other messages overlaid on top of the first one.
When I'm typing away on a bib record, I have very little patience for people who keep popping back with one liners. It reminds me a little bit of my commute -- I'm too impatient and everyone else is too slow. And it's all about me.
Text messaging: So I did figure out how to send a text message on my phone. Really much easier to call someone. My brother ended up calling me back, since he can receive text messages but can't send them from his phone.
I can see where this would be fun for sending messages in class, but I think I'm safely past the age where text messaging could become an addiction.
Webinars: Been there, done that, printed out the Powerpoint. They're pretty good for lurking while learning, but not much good for any kind of back and forth between student and teacher.
On to Thing 8...
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