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Originally posted by Lyndzey
I'm annoyed when people say "you never come on AIM". I just can't stand 15 AIM boxes with 10 people "wanting to chat".
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I'm on AIM quite a lot. My way of dealing with it is simple and effective
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People IMing me just saying 'hi' or 'what's up?' or even worse, 'what are you doing, receive a simple statement from me saying something like "If you don't have something reasonably important to say, then please don't IM me." I'll tolerate 'hi' and 'what's up' from people i know in REAL LIFE who don't come online every day or even people that I know pretty well over the internet who I haven't seen in a while, because these two groups may honestly care. Otherwise, these people are just deluding themselves into thinking I CARE about them. I clear up the delusion fast, when this happens. Some people are offended; others realize what the problem is. Sometimes I'll add a statement "Think of my viewpoint...My AIM address is available to a lot of people...I don't want to deal with 50 IMs of people that have absolutely nothing to say; I'd rather deal with 5 or so of those who actually have something semi-important to discuss as well as with those who are my true friends. But...people that I don't know IMing me saying 'hi' or 'what's up' simply fall into neither of these categories.