Attachment

According to Bowlby (1969), attachment motivation is a personality attribute that reflects an individual’s desire for social interaction and a sense of communion with others.

The concept of relationship commitment measures whether an individual tends to continue with an established relationship. It reflects an individual’s internal representation of dependence on an established relationship, including both long- term orientation and psychological attachment to the relationship (Rusbult,1983).

Defination of Instant Messaging (IM)

IM is an Internet-based application that provides close to real-time communication between people. Rennecker and Godwin (2003)

Synchronous

IM has five unique features:
1)presence awareness
2)“popup” recipient notification
3)within-medium polychronic communication (simultaneous involvement in more than one conversation at the same time) (Bluedorn et al., 1992)
4)silent interactivity
5)ephemeral transcripts

According to Rennecker and Godwin (2003) “Theorizing the Unintended Consequences of
Instant Messaging (IM) for Worker Productivity,” Sprouts: Working Papers on
Information Environments. Systems and Organizations, (3), Available at
http://weatherhead.cwru.edu/sprouts/2003/030307.pdf

IM examples:
ICQ, MSN, QQ

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This week will be very busy, lots of work are waiting for me.

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