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June 25, 2005
On The Fidelity of Status
Boo Hoo, Poor Me, I have too many friends. 2 things for you, "Busy" and "Ban User?".
I know that some people are particularly conscientious, putting themselves as "On The Phone" or something when that's the case. Annoying people, however, do one of two things. They set themselves as perpetually "Away", or as perpetually "Online". The particularly annoying ones set themselves to sign in as Invisible. Anyway the Away thing is very evident in MSN, since you've applied the mess.be patch, and can differentiate between when a use is Idle, or setting him/herself as Away. But regardless the effect is much the same, to discourage people from sending you messages.
Telling people to fuck off has always been effective enough for me, you should try it.
I always feel like an idiot messaging people when I'm not sure whether they're in front of their computers or not, and it's pissing me off. Sure people can pounce on you - Deal with it. And then set yourself to "Fuck off and stop pouncing".
Gave your work colleagues your personal IM account and regretted it? Get another one. Or use another protocol, like ICQ or something.
Posted by subtitles at June 25, 2005 8:10 PM | Computer Stuff