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I have also disabled all my IM accounts for the same rasons but I did open one new one where I have only non-human contacts. I use it for receiving alerts from different bots and some tests (My work involves a lot of XMPP stuff).

My point is that IM only becomes a distraction and a timesink when you have human contacts (especially ones with too much free time).

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That's the thing though, yours is an edge case. I see the value of utilising IM as a communication method for keeping an eye on things.

However, I think that in the vast majority of cases, people will have people on their IM clients (which is why I said generally) and that is when things go pear shaped quickly.

It just seems like the idea was poorly conceived

Anyway, I don't mean to take too much of a jab at the OP. I have one of those ideas turned into products under my belt that turned out to be a complete wrong fit for what I was trying to achieve.

I think its best to just move on.

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