Techno losers

Gmail's "chat" app is now integrated via AJAX with the email application. In other words, if you've sent someone an email from gmail to gmail you will show up in their user list for chat automatically. I was explaining this to a coworker and I proceeded to demonstrate it. One woman that I always saw as "green" (online) on my chat list had emailed me only once, she had thanked me for some help in data collection that went into a presentation she was giving for the lab. I didn't know her well, though she sure was a talker. In any case, I was like, "Check it, people never notice when you chat them if they don't use the app. Look." I proceeded to type, "YOU ARE A LOSER!" to the woman I didn't know well. I laughed and told my coworker, "See, most people never notice." After 30 seconds though, I see "typing" from the individual I messaged, and I was like, "Oh shit, she was paying attention." She was like, "What?" And I was like, "Oh, I was joking, just showing how this app worked to a friend." She was like, "Oh, because I'm having a very bad day, I was turned down for a job I really needed...." Shit. She then proceeds to go on for 15 minutes about all the terrible things that are happening in her life.... Moral of the story? Don't demonstrate technology by involving people who you don't know too well.....