Instant Messenging Pet Peeves

Alright, we have away messages for a reason. If you can't talk, put one up. You can go invisible if you need to do schoolwork. Just don't stay online and say "sorry i cant talk" FFS. If you can't talk, don't be online. And don't block someone because they tell you that, because sorry, it's the truth. Not my fault you're online while you're doing homework. You can't possibly be doing eight hours of homework that requires you to be constantly online. If you can do that, you can at least say a hello, or how was your day. Total disregard for logic, pisses me off.

How about you? 🙂

The only thing I understood of that was when you said How about you
I see no problem with sb stayin online for hours. Today I went to buy sth to the other side of the hood and I was hours and noone said nothin

ugh...
i forget to change my status sometimes...😬

On AIM though, it's blatently obvious if you're there or not. You're able to be invisible so you can talk to your buddys but they can't see if you're online or not... and there's the classic away message where you get a prewritten message if you IM them. The point is: why be signed on if you "can't talk"? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Originally posted by JKozzy
On AIM though, it's blatently obvious if you're there or not. You're able to be invisible so you can talk to your buddys but they can't see if you're online or not... and there's the classic away message where you get a prewritten message if you IM them. The point is: why be signed on if you "can't talk"? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

You are right on that, being online while you are away on AIM, MSN, ICQ or whatever is a bother to the rest.

Aaaah 😖 thats one of mine too... i did it like once but it was becuase i was just turning on the computer and the person imed me before i could log off 😛

another would have to be when the systems logs you off or stops working entirely 😖 or if someone just stops talking to you...

or if they like say brb.... and like 3 hours later there like, 'sorry i had to goto the bathroom' or something 😖

You can always tell when someone is idle or not. I don't get mad if someone is online and doesn't IM me. Not like they owe it to me or anything.

I don't IM alot of the people on my buddy list.

I understand what you're saying but people shouldn't have to change their status according to you.

-AC

I completely agree with you JKozzy.

I mean, sure you can be online and do research for homework or whatever, but do NOT sign on to MSN Messenger or the other IM's if you can't talk. It annoys the hell out of me when someone is signed on to MSN and say they are doing homework. Why stay on IM, which is FOR TALKING TO FRIENDS, if you are too busy to talk to them or anyone else for hours?

People, please please please sign off of the IM's if you won't be there or be able to respond for hours. If you are on AOL there is an exception since it's always there. But on MSN Mess, ICQ, or whatever else is out there...SIGN OFF!!!

Well I can kinda understand being on AIM/MSN and not wanting to talk but still being logged in...what if you're waiting for one person to log on so you can talk to them? I do that a lot, be logged into AIM/MSN just to talk to one person.

What really bothers me is when people I don't know IM me. It drives me insane.

Yea, I have a habit of cussing them out....

I have a habit of not saying anything and then blocking them.

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i usually have it at n/a or something...

I dont to this, I see no problem about it though 😖 I don't have problems with sleeping at nights because someone who was logged didn't have time for me 🙂

Well sometimes there is a reason for this kozzman. For example last night I was doing a double file transfer from smoker of 2 smallville episodes. Now this takes a couple of hours, so I had to be "online" when I wasnt even home, as I left it running while I went to the basketball game. I honestly wish MSN had the feature of being online yet invisible the way Yahell messenger does. 😖

Easy Kozzy, some of us set Idle to kick in very soon after we don't touch the PC.

Maybe the biggest situation, is why MSN sucks so much balls compared to YIM! and AIM.

not to get off topic but.....i love tool 💃

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
Well sometimes there is a reason for this kozzman. For example last night I was doing a double file transfer from smoker of 2 smallville episodes. Now this takes a couple of hours, so I had to be "online" when I wasnt even home, as I left it running while I went to the basketball game. I honestly wish MSN had the feature of being online yet invisible the way Yahell messenger does. 😖

I think YIM! crushes MSN in every possible way, because now even AIM has the option to let you appear invisible, so MSN is falling FAR behind for abilities as of late. I could careless that you can make your own screen name on MSN, all I ever did was posted lyrics anyway, they still need an invisible feature.

exactly. why can't it be online and invisible?

Meh, I really don't like YIM that much...and AIM has had the invisible setting for quite some time 😛

But it WOULD be very nice if MSN had something like that...there were quite a few times that I was being very anti-social and not wanting to talk to anyone but was still waiting for someone else. An invisible mode on MSN would be awesome.