Signing off on Yahoo Messenger.

The latency period of this event is approximately 15 min. In an ideal end, say, one of them hints to leave. The time gap between “I need to go” and the actual signing off is substantial. This unintentional occurrence is more prominent in the long conversations. There is always a “kutty topic” that is to be discussed. Even a formal bye is followed by an exchange of atleast one other single word message- bye, again. The person broaching the topic is in a dilemma to do that, and also the other user on chat, is in a dilemma to respond. In some cases, both of them feel obligated to each other, one for having opened it and the other for closing it. This gives completeness to the chatting session.

Disclaimer: There is a law of conservation of conversation. On a big sample set, the number of time I do it to some one and the number of times, it happens me evens out.