no one chats on chatting services anymore

before anyone chastises me on that, i'll qualify the statement with a question,

what is the response you usually get when you ask a friend on msn/yahoo/googletalk/aol/whatever what he/she is doing online?

i'm listening to music,

i'm watching television

i'm surfing only

i'm just bumming,

it's a rare occasion when someone says he/she is chatting,

so i suppose you give them the benefit of the doubt, but then again, it's hard to get someone to admit that he/she is chatting, you'll never get a straight answer, it's always chatting and doing work, or something similar,

i mean, this post is probably going off tangent, but maybe the reason lies in the powerful gigahertz of computing power that allows us to multitask; either that or it's a shame to admit you have nothing better to do with your life but go online and chat? err, i dont know, but i'm rather frequently online nowadays,

and yah, i'm not chatting,  ¶ 11:32 pm