Assignment#2

So far, I liked the material covered in INFO245. Although it takes about 20 minutes to go back to Engineering quad. I decided to stay in this class and enjoy relatively long commute to the James auditorium. When I received assignment#2, I was a bit puzzled. I have never had an assignment like this one. So, I started looking for a random chatroom in google. I went to chatting.com and other chatting websites. However, most of the people who I encountered wanted me to tell them my asl and wanted to have a sexual conversation. It was surprising that some of them were actually thought I also have this kind of expectation from them. So, unfortunately, my search for random person to form an impression was unsuccessful. However, I want to talk about the relationship that I build over years. It was five years ago. Although I never chat with random people in these days. At that time, talking to random people was one of my hobbies. I usually went to a Korean website called buddybuddy.com. I am not sure whether it still exists or not. There I met a guy named hwang912. As usual, we told each other our age, sex, and location. He was a year older than me, living in Korea. At first, he seemed cold and not friendly because the sentences he wrote were quite short. However, as we kept talking we found out that we had common interest and common view on current events. At the end of our first conversation we gave each other email address and nickname for the instant messenger. From then we talked on the instant messenger and sent emails to each other. Although I do not talk to him as often as I did before, we still keep in touch and wish to meet sometime in person in future. I think my experience is a typical example of developmental aspect. Although, CMC has limited amount of information available to form an impression of a stranger. If one keeps talking to the person, he or she will eventually be able to know enough about this person to form a relatively correct impression.