The Onion might describe many of the exchanges as ' validating the living sh** out of each other.'
But their chats also included long digressions about the men in their lives agonizing over the exact timing, tone, and frequency of emails and calls from those men links to lingerie purchased for a visiting boyfriend regrets about unprotected sex plans for housing in Hawaii, with links to various Craigslist postings and discussions about interior decorating. Since Snyder was in HR and Gould, a producer for the company, was planning a move to Hawaii to begin working remotely for the company, some of the chatting involved administrative details about health insurance and Gould's hourly billing. A print-out of their Skype exchanges over one two-week period is over 100 pages long. The two instant messaged each other frequently throughout their work days.
