Chat Sessions

The chat session assessment has been really hard. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I’ve found the fast-passed chat really hard to keep up with. I hope that doesn’t constitute writing off topic! Because by the time I’ve thought about what I should say, and typed it, the conversation has moved on, and my little comment is left out there feeling exposed and unnecessary.
I haven’t been involved in chat before, so I think that’s why I’m being left behind a bit (but then isn’t everyone? The tute group is so big, with so many people trying to post something interesting, entertaining and on current topic it runs very quickly). I wasn’t allowed on msn, my mother was desperately frightened I would chat to paedophiles) so I never bothered posting on any others, I was always scared mum would walk in, see I was on a chat and die of shock! How do you plan what to say? It’s all in the moment, even though you know what the topics are you never know what will happen when everyone starts typing, I didn’t even know what nintendogs were until today! But they are very cute! I suppose if you put them into the context of proximity and unit living, it’s the closest thing to a pet dog many will have… but maybe just a little of topic.