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| | Away messages keep users in touch - Washington Post - MSNBC.com |
 | | Away messaging, a function of instant messaging, is this generation's automatic way of telling online buddies, when the sender's not online, where he or she is, or is not, 24-7. |
 | | Young people, says deSouza, were the first to catch on to the general concept known as "presence," and away messaging is now as common on campus as sagging dormitory couches. |
 | | Once they are wired into a college's Internet, away from parental controls, young people often step up their use of away messages, changing them three, four, even 25 or 30 times a day. |
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