A tiger don’t change its stripes.—thrax96Huh?—k8cheThat’s from Lost. I think I’m going to put that on my Facebook business card.—thrax96when I first began working at Facebook and Dustin said, “Get on AIM, we’re on it all the time,” he wasn’t joking. Most conversations in the office, from the driest work-related exchange to the most overt flirtation, happened on AIM. At times, this led to confusion—an engineering manager might send you an AIM asking you to go get coffee during work hours but it would be unclear whether this was for professional or personal reasons. At that moment he could be interested in befriending you, just as later he might be arranging your promotion. When you were online, with your Adium (our preferred AIM client) status set to available, it was open season in terms of what you might get in the way of messages: Because we were sitting at different desks and often in different rooms, separated and protected by technology, anything could happen and often did.“Can you introduce me to that Japanese girl you are working with?”
