Have you ever been ICQing or IMing with someone and then they suddenly dissapear and you just feel lost?
NO!
Okay okay, it happens. Sometimes I’m in an interesting discussion and then |>fwap<| …there gone
-silence-
and I’m like, “Come back!! come back!!!” ::mopping puddles of tears off the floor::
::lukewarm breeze flowing through hair:: Tumbleweeds flying by::
Sheesh, do you just sit around and start threads in the morning. 
I vote we just change the name MPSIMS to “Euty’s Forum”.
It pretty well is now, isn’t it?
Yes.
How could you be lost? You’re still sitting at your desk where you were a moment ago, no?
-L
Have you tried Hare Krishna?
Definitely… or you receive their IM, and realize you’re both pretty much finished with the current topic and your brain just freezes… you’re not sure where to go next.
Though I bet you run into that less frequently than I do. Half the time I can’t even think of what to say to start an IM conversation with someone on my list. (witness the fact you’re on my ICQ list and I still haven’t come up with something to chat about.)
And your problem with this is? 
Euty, every thread you make losses T&A and grows profoundly with the M&P. Care to explain?
Huh?
I know that empty feeling. Oy. Good thing I’ve got AAA–the IM Triptiks have been quite helpful.
:::scratching head in puzzlement:::
I too am failing to find a problem here.
From time to time; but more often, I am struck with dublos’ problem.
Sweetheart, I’d have absolutely no problem with this at all. I am already one of your slavish admirers. But don’tcha think the other mod’s would razz ya something awful?
Oh wait, I forgot. Celestial MPSIMS gods don’t worry 'bout things like that, do they?
Even worse is when your own computer crashes or you lose your connection in the middle of an IM and you try desperately to get back online, but when you do, the person you were talking to has just left (or, even more frustrating, you actually see their name disappearing).
I hate that.
(At this point, I’d happily offer to talk to you on IM, Euty, but not only am I too shy, I wouldn’t want it to look like I was suggesting you’d talk to random people out of loneliness or boredom. Um…would you?)
Well, some of us have evil, demonic ISPs that are always trying to thwart their users.
Some of us really, really want to be able to stay on ICQ and chat about wonderful things but the technology goons are out to get us!
Some of us really, really hate getting kicked offline while in the middle of an ICQ conversation and hate it even worse when we can’t sign back on.
Some of us have to be in bad moods for the rest of the day because we couldn’t get back online to continue our conversations.
Some of us are really very sorry that we got kicked off and couldn’t get back on to tell you.
Rashad does that to me every now and then. His computer will crap out, and he just decides not to come back. So I sit there staring blankly, trying to decide if I wanna stay online and wait for him to come back, or just leave also. I usually play solitaire or something to amuse myself until someone else comes on for me to talk to. Or, often I just sit staring into space. Whichever is more convienent.