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[moof]

you are in a chat room talking away when a third person both of you know logs in & says hi.

after a few lines of typing you notice something odd & you stop typing, since the other two people are no longer involving you in the chat but merely responding to your text if you type something.

when you stop starting a topic the other two people no longer type anything.

A psranoid person would maybe assume the other two people are PM ing & have no interest in chatting with you.

should you log off so as not to bother them ?
or should they ask you to leave?
or should they have excused themselves & gone somewhere else?

It just seems rude for them to chat only with private messages
rather than participate in a three way conversation, it is afterall
a chat room and we all knew each other from previous chats.

What do you think ?