# The green icon bothers me. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 2, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810 "2008-03-02T04:11:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/41 "2008-03-03T04:20:31Z")
I see green dots in my sleep ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/42 "2008-03-03T04:26:17Z")
testing my dot. ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/43 "2008-03-03T04:40:22Z")
Whoa! Dude, your dot don’t look so good… It’s this sickly shade of brownish-yellow, with flecks of white and red. You really should see somebody about that. waitaminute ::scratches screen:: [sub]nevermind[/sub] . ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/44 "2008-03-03T10:40:16Z")
…or how I learned to quit worrying and love the Green Dot. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/45 "2008-03-03T22:18:58Z")
Don’t mind me, just checkin’ out my dot. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/46 "2008-03-04T02:02:35Z")
[QUOTE=chique] Now that this board has instituted overly-intrusive, large, slow (for people on dial-up, like me), resource-using Google ads [/QUOTE] [Privoxy will block a large number of ads on the Internet.](http://www.privoxy.org/) ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/47 "2008-03-04T03:15:25Z")
Yay no green dot! Mercy buckets. 🙂 Thanks for hte link, **Derleth** ; will check that out when I have time. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/48 "2008-03-18T11:07:50Z")
[QUOTE=ZenBeam] When I hover over my red dot, it says “ZenBeam is invisible”. 🆒 [/QUOTE] When I hover over your blue-ish, grey-ish dot, it says “ZenBeam is offline” In fact, I’ve never seen a red dot. They’re either green and say “online” or are blue-grey and say “offline.” Is it just red for yourself? ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/49 "2008-03-18T16:47:11Z")
Yes, other’s will just see **ZenBeam** is offline, even when I’m logged in. Because I’m invisible… ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/50 "2008-03-18T21:00:26Z")
Where did **ZenBeam** go?? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810/51 "2008-03-18T21:30:39Z")
I am thoroughly amused that hovering over my icon displays “InvisibleWombat is invisible.” I suppose I’m easy to amuse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-icon-bothers-me/439810.md?page=2)