Serious Business

Serious Business is an application on Father's PDA. It works much like Twitter, where the users can leave short messages that anyone can view.

Though all the users of Serious Business are clearly office workers and businesspeople in general, John is still naive on his father's occupation and believes the Serious Business users are "his fellow street performers."
 * pipefan413: Dad.
 * grayslacks66: Accidentally dunked the tip of his tie into coffee and sought help with Serious Business. Ended up going home for a fresh tie instead. Later, grayslacks66 asked Dad for the 'status of [his] health/wardrobe.'
 * wellPressedAttire: Gave grayslacks66 help during the 'coffee dunk incident.' Later, showed concern over Dad's well-being and provided encouragement for fedorafreak.
 * officeurchin1280: Not much is known. If the number in his screen name is a birth date, officeurchin is rather young for a businessperson, which goes well with the screen name.
 * 2busy4this: So far only posted one message. The screen name and use of abbreviations leads one to believe him or her to be very busy.
 * fedorafreak: A more recently seen friend. In light of a house near his being hit with a 'flaming projectile,' he began evacuating all his expensive garments. Given his screen name and priorities, it's easy to tell he has a big love for fedora-style hats.

During Act 1, a timestamp would appear next to the screen name of message senders, indicating when they sent the message. However, since the 'cataclysmic event' began, all of the timestamps have consistently read '??:??.'