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New Feature: Schedule Microsoft Team Chat Messages
In this https://youtu.be/X1z192QON2c, I preview a new Microsoft Teams feature that was just added into the Microsoft Teams public preview program: https://youtu.be/X1z192QON2c. Note that ...
Please clarify how this would 1) be annoying and 2) violate the user's privacy.
- When I sign on I don't want to be bombarded with new message notifications. I also don't want random users to be alerted when I am available, that feature's already a privacy violation (it makes some sense for managers to keep tabs on their teams but there's no mechanism in Teams to control "oh this person is a direct report of that person, so allow it", such as an AAD integration); adding further notifications, even indirectly, that a user is now available is just further eroding that user's privacy.
Messaging apps are asynchronous by design--you can just send your message and whenever the user is able to read it, they can read it. Stop trying to hamstring them by making them behave like outmoded communication methods such as phone calls, please! - TylerH1
Allowing for sending the message once the user is online appears perfectly logical and the opposite of annoying. That is, if the message is scheduled, but the user is not fully available, they would still receive a notification, which may be disturbing. However, if the message arrives once the user is online, they get all the messages right in time when they are intended to be available.- There's no difference between a user being online vs being available as far as your message is concerned. What matters is when the user chooses to read the message. If they are busy and don't want to be disturbed... that's what the Do Not Disturb status feature is for. If you have a message to send to someone, just send it. Don't stalk them.
