Stupid AIM Prank

[cheezit]

*Originally posted by LiquidLobotomy *
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My question is: WHY DON"T I EVER GET ANY RANDOM IM’S? Never. Not even a mistaken one. Nothing, nada, zilch. I don’t even get dirty emails. What’s wrong with me? **

I think your sig answers your question.

I never get any either. Not even my friends IM me. :mad::eek:

[LiquidLobotomy]

*Originally posted by cheezit *
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*Originally posted by LiquidLobotomy *
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My question is: WHY DON"T I EVER GET ANY RANDOM IM’S? Never. Not even a mistaken one. Nothing, nada, zilch. I don’t even get dirty emails. What’s wrong with me? **

I think your sig answers your question.

I never get any either. Not even my friends IM me. :mad::eek: **

Oh…shoot, you may be right. My friends do IM me. They are always saying funny things like, “Leave me alone you creep” and “If you don’t stop IMing me I’m going to call the police.” Funny group of people.

[SPOOFE]

Hey, CNote, you have a six-year-old son named Calvin, don’tcha?

[CnoteChris]

That must be an AIM kinda joke, SPOOFE, because I don’t even come close to getting it.

Yet another reason I despise AIM…

[SPOOFE]

It’s a Calvin & Hobbes reference. Calvin’s dad hated technology. “Your dad thought that transportation should’ve stopped with the bucycle,” as Hobbes said.

[Badtz_Maru]

*Originally posted by Syzygy *
**Just curious, Chris - what do you have against instant messenging software? It’s a fast, easy way to chat privately with friends and family. I like being able to talk to people at my own pace without having to hold a handset pressed against my ear. But to each his own, after all.

And Badtz, they might have gotten your name from any of the information posted in your profile. I know I had only the city and state where I was and someone IMed me based on that info. **

I don’t allow it to search for me by name or address on that profile, I thought I had all the options to be searched for turned off until the email search was pointed out to me in this thread, and even now it’s disabled.

For those of you wanting random IMs, change your profile to allow people to search for you, choose some interests (Romance always gets some good ones), and maybe say you are a 13 year old girl in your profile, that sometimes gets me about 20 random IMs an hour (on other handles).

[OpalCat]

*Originally posted by CnoteChris *
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Nope. I graduated a long time ago. Maybe that’s why I don’t like instant messaging then.

If you like it? By all means, knock yourself out. In fact, if I ever come around to IM’ing <snort> you’ll be the first person I ask to be on my buddy list.

‘Hieeiii. Cann_IIII_put_you ON my buddy LIST, ddeerrrr, ooppp…?. IDDD_meen_alot_to_ME’

Until I get smacked in the head with a large blunt-like object, I’ll pass. **

I’m just confused. I mean if you don’t want to use instant messaging, that’s all fine and dandy… but to claim that it’s childish is just stupid. Sure, some childish people also use it, but so do the CEOs of large corporations. I know that at my husband’s job, a lot of inter-office memo type stuff is done via ICQ, for example. And what is childish about me and my mom (who lives 2300 miles away) discussing how my dying grandfather is doing, or how my son is doing in school? It’s simply a vehicle for communication. How it is used, and by who, and for what is completely beside the point. It can be used to be childish and stupid or it can be used just like any other method of communication (the phone, letters, face-to-face conversation, etc).

[Mole]

I just think of instant messaging as a tool. And it’s amazing to me to have real-time (or as close to real-time as possible) answers to questions.

Although I’m now somewhat disappointed, like LiquidLobotomy, in that I never receive random IM’s.