“Hi.”
“Hey.”

“What’s up?”
“Not much. You?”
“Same.”

***

I have no doubt that the above conversation is overwhelmingly familiar. At least, for me. IM conversations are, in my belief, the number one culprit. (Though they usually contain much more painful grammar, or a lack thereof.)

But with friends like I have, boring conversations are barely ever an issue.

A friend and I once discussed into the late hours of the night how every person we knew would react if we decided to go out. (We’re both female, by the by. And the conversation was purely speculative, but extraordinarily interesting nevertheless.)

Another friend began a conversation by asking me a scarily philosophical question, which I don’t actually remember. But that was another long, interesting conversation. We discussed all manner of things.

Some of my friends I’m still working on.

But I’m slowly but surely converting them to wacky-yet-wonderful IM conversations. (The real life discussions don’t NEED conversion. If anything, they need toning down. ^_^)