Ok, what is the fucking damage lately? I have been besieged by some of the most pathetic fucking losers on the planet who spontaneously ICQ me wanting to be my friend and chat with me.
Now, it isn’t bad enough that they wear desperation like Tammy Faye wears make-up, no… they are DEMANDING about being your friend. When you decline them, even if you use the refuse without a reason option, they get huffy and start being critical of you like that will make you want to be their special friend.
So, I set my ICQ on invisible and not to accept messages from people not on my contact list. Now people are just adding me to their contact lists, which I get a message for, even though they cannot send me messages because my ICQ does not have them on my list.
What is up with these co-dependant fucking people who are so desperate for friendship that they would force themselves on someone who has no desire and complete contempt for their pathetic and psychotic plea for attention?!?
Get a motherfucking life you scum sucking bottom feeders of the internet!!!
That kept happening to me when I went into IRC chat on #straightdope. I would get these random “Hi, I’m Randy from Toronto, care to cyber?” messages.
Um, NO, LOSER!
Then the other night someone named eMagdalen messaged me to bitch me out for “sitting on HER nick” and calling me a newbie with no netiquette, a poser, someone trying to copy her, she’d been on the net for 10 years and I was “obviously very new to being online” - she came into #staightdope to give me a public spanking, booted me off the channel onto a netsplit, threatened all kinds of interference with me. She kept saying “I have been very polite to you, and you have been nothing but rude” in between the rude, nasty comments and kicking me off the channel.
I told her the nightly cybersex requests started making sense all of a sudden, and switched my name to magda. No biggie.
I always go into mirc in invisible mode - otherwise I get innundated with cyber requests. I gues a nick like “Kelli_b” sounds like a horny teenage girl.
Kelli is my real fucking name! I should change it to Martha or Hilda, or something that sounds like a grown up.:mad:
IRC is a special circumstance with a great deal of bullshit attached to it. I went on IRC for the first time in 1991.
The woman who claimed to have a nick for 10 years was probably lying. When IRC started, it wasn’t very big. Maybe a few thousand people on it. Now there are scores of people who live there like it was real life.
On IRC, there is a large contingent who treat the cyber existance like it was real life. They may never meet in person, diddle each other without a clue of who the person really is that they are typing dirty nothings to, and carry on simulated romantic relationships. IRC isn’t real. It is chat, just like this. You don’t really get to know people deeply there for the most part because they have even more defenses up than people who meet you face to face.
People are proprietary about their nicknames, even though you can’t register them on most nets, will harass and attack others for shits and grins, and play other games. As long as you remember it isn’t real life, and the people who treat it that way are sort of sad, it can still be a fun experience.
That depends on the random loser’s client being official enough to honor the setting. Many clones will happily let you add anyone to your contact list, whether they “require” authorization or not. The victim doesn’t even see the request, just “(somename) has added you to his/her contact list.”
Yeah, Guin’s correct, there is a thread in MPSIMS on it. It’s right here, and, if I must say so, <shameless self-promotion> it’s not too shabby. <end shameless self-promotion>
Feel free to share horror stories or tips on how to make there people’s heads explode in confusion. Usually it’s just as simple as saying that n’Synch isn’t a good band.
Now now hastur, let’s not be so quick to call IRC not real. A large part of the Chicago and Nor Cal dope fests have been coordinated through it :D.
Anyway, i dont get ICQ requests, for some reason i dont know why. However, on Odigo (it links AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo, as well as it’s own messaging service together), I frequently get requests from horny Russians, Eastern Europeans, South and Central American teen girls (and guys), as well as lots of Israelis. Most are polite when you refuse, but I had one guy go off on me for refusing to add him to my friends list. He claimed all Americans were stupid and the same and brain washed, and he’s never had a good chat with any of us (I told him if he wasn’t so fucking abrasive and annoying maybe we would). Then he went off on some crazy talk we’ve only seen from our resident Icelandic American basher (y’all who’ve been here a while know who that is). It was weird.
Also, for some reason adding “gay, Lesbian, bisexual” in your interests seems to imply you’re down for cybersex at any given moment.
It happens on almost every messenger. ICQ is probably the worst though. I re-downloaded it a couple months ago, and accidentally left my profile in a search directory or something of the sort… I left it connected while I hung out with my friends for a few hours… I got back and there were 73 people in my “Not in list”. Wtf!!!
And the weirdest part was that a good %80 of them were from Turkey or Egypt. A few from India and like… two from the States.
Im beggining to think that the name malkavia means something other than its intended White Wolf reference in the middle east.
