Who the hell are these people on my buddy list?!

It makes me feel so stupid, but it happens all the time. I’ll be looking at my Trillian* buddy list and I have no idea who 25% of these people are. And those who I do know, I sometimes get confused. “that is either Mary or Jane, but I have no idea which!”

So am I alone? I leave them on for a long time out of guilt, then I finally delete them. I used to IM them and say “who is this?” but I got tired of feeling like an idiot.

*a program that lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN and IRC all in one application. Very useful for those of us that already run too many programs at once.

I manage my ICQ contact list in a similar way. I delete some names after a point comes when I cant even remember why I added them there in the first place…

My ICQ list is like that also. I just got AIM 2 days ago, so I still know everybody on it. Wonder how long that will last.

well the third one from the top, that’s me…

My closest online friend is from Ilford, near London. She, in turn, has a very closeknit circle of IRL friends who all chat to each other online, and who all have my Yahoo ID on their machines. I know all their names, and all their Yahoo IDs, but I just can’t match them up. Whenever one of them messages me with “Hiiii Andrew, how’s it goin’?”, I have to say, “Look, I’ll come clean. Which one are you again??” Luckily, they’re all used to my vague ways by now. I still feel like a right goose though.

Opal, I’m actively lobbying AOL to create a Nemesis List. This way I won’t be wasting precious hours plotting the demise of those who no longer appear on it.

A UPS truck bounces Brithael into a back bayou where he’s bled to death… bink he disappears from my Nemesis Window.

icq lets you change the other users names…so you can change mamasmurfhugglesvomit to carrie

Best get that Shift Button fixed, dude…

Happens to me 2, especially when I have one person who insists on changing their sn almost every month or so. Really is a pain in the ass.