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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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How many names have you on yout IM lists.... AIN, MSN, YAHOO?
How many of those do you converse regularly?
How often have you blocked someone on your list?
and why?..... without getting too personal.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I don’t participate in any of those. I don’t think I’ve IMed in almost 3 years.
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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I only turn on or use IM if someone specifically asks me to for a particular reason, which is almost never. There are only about a dozen names on it, and I've never had cause to block anyone.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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I have 54 contacts on my contact list (for all four accounts -- two MSN, one Yahoo and one AIM). I talk to about a dozen regularly or semi-regularly. Of the rest, some of them are there because I haven't got round to removing them (they are people who are never online -- I added them but they simply don't use MSN, or maybe they blocked me; who knows?). On the whole, I only talk to people that I either know in real life or whom I know through someone else who knows them in real life (or occasionally whom I am reasonably confident are worth meeting in real life).
For university or young adult contacts, Facebook is a good substitute for instant messaging.
I have blocked a few people. Sometimes they are people who made their way onto a contact list because I started chatting at some obscure site and it seemed like the right thing to do, but then we run out of things to say -- though usually I don't actually block them but simply remove them, so they have the option to contact me if they want. I have blocked one or two people who pestered me (to meet) and it became embarrassing. (Never creepy, fortunately.)
I don't think I have ever blocked anyone from this board.
David
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166 MSN contacts, and an additional 82 email only contacts.
of those, maybe 20 regular people i talk to, and perhaps 45 i'd talk to once a week
i rarely ever block someone, though everysooften, someone adds me, total stranger, and starts asking for cam 2 cam, and other stuff like that. always the same story "got my address off a website" and stuff like that.... they tend to get blocked and deleted pretty quick.
Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
Nescio, set fieri sentio et excrucior
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saben
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On fire! |
Registered: May 2003
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Usually I block random people. Sometimes I block people to let them know I'm upset. Sometimes I have "annoying friends" that I block when I don't want to have to talk to them. Sometimes I block family because I can't be bothered talking to them. I block people who I have let down and don't want to have to deal with (example a project partner for a school assignment). I still don't block that often, though! Despite what it may sound like.
I have over a hundred contacts- in the last couple of years I hardly sign on. I speak to maybe 10 people in a session. But only have an MSN session every 2 weeks or so. I used to be online everyday. I'd speak to probably 5-10 "main people", who would get full responses and actual conversations. And a couple of other random conversations that basically consisted of "hi" "hi" "how r u" "good u?" "good", before petering out.
MSN is what I mostly use, AIM is still pretty popular. I like Yahoo messenger, but not as many people use that. But now you can add MSN friends to Yahoo, which is good.
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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