Google Talk thinks I’m sad. I’m not sure why, but it keeps telling people my status is “:(” while I’m chatting with them. My actual status doesn’t change, but mid-chat with people, it sends them my “updated” status and tells them it is “:(“. Kevin was the first to notice this strange happening and told me about it multiple times. Then today while I was one a different machine than usual, with a separately downloaded version of Google Talk, Dwayne pointed out my “emo filter” which had sent him my sad face status while mid-chat.

I have done a bit of googling…but have found nothing. In fact, searching for “:(“ turns up some rather…um…null results.

The could be related to having GMail open at the same time as GTalk because I almost always have them both open. This would be an easier problem to point to if I had the web based gtalk client enabled withing GMail, but I don’t. But still, it could be related. And why the frown face? What is GTalk so sad about?

Anyone else heard of this before?

And yes, I realize I told Kevin I was going to “blob” about this in the above screen shot. I just blobbed all over the place.

(screen shot courtesty of Kevin)