Is it justified to react to random instant messages from people you don't know with hostility? That just happened to me with a member of this message board, and I'm pretty sure that person now will never talk to me again. Not that it particularly stresses me, I'm just a little frustrated.

To be honest, I do have my screen name posted on my profile. I reacted with hostility because this person is a new member, and so I had no way of establishing any kind of identity for them outside of what they told me in that instant message. I guess I'm an anti-social grouch.

Why would you even display your IM screen name when you could be contacted here?

Maybe I collect AIM screen names? Or maybe I like to instant message instead of Private messaging? I dunno. Do you think I'm anti-social, perpetuating my anti-social behavior by keeping my screen name up? Should I keep my screen name up?

Why would i think you were anti-social?

Should I keep my screen name up?

Probably not, but if you do people may use it to bust balls...especially now that you made an issue of it. :)

(Yea. How did you figure out that this was a stupid way of trying to get attention?)

Besides, it's always been up and no one has used it to argue with me or mess with me before...

what do you want me to tell you?

i am always hostile when a person messages me and doesnt identify right away
i give them 3 messages to identify themselves and then block them

i am always hostile when a person messages me and doesnt identify right away
i give them 3 messages to identify themselves and then block them
that is my policy as well.

i am on some sort of list in turkey..my msn anyhow. about every three days, i have some turkish guy asking me to set him up with belgian women for them to marry.


"do i know you?"
"do i know you?"
"tell me who you are."
*block*

I find it annoying that people change their MSN name constantly. I miss the PSI powers to deduct under which new name the people are identifying themselves.

Can you hook my friend up with a belgium woman btw.

Can you hook my friend up with a belgium woman btw.
only if he has a unibrow.

No....he is a Fin. Fins don't have unibrows because they are straight decendents of jesus.

if anyone wants mine then they have to pm me for my address first

i refuse to pm you.

pm ME with your messenger address.

i refuse to pm you.

pm ME with your messenger address.

Pm me a belgium woman. I will send you his address.

i post my adress everywhere and i'm please to talk to anyone, as long as they fucking tell me who they are



clostridium_tetani@hotmail.com, btw ;p

i never saw you online again, spurious

Yeah, other people complain about that too. I hardly ever log in to MSN. Last time was a month ago or so for a few minutes.

Here's an easy way to avoid the confusion: Don't talk to anyone you don't know.

I once had my IM handles in my profile. Then there was an incident where I got into a debate with some brainless dude. A friend of mine from here who I IM all the time (and who doesn't come by here much anymore, apparently) joined in on the debate. She and I effectively defeated this dude. Then he fucking got my friend's AIM handle and started bugging her. I called him out on it publicly on SciForums, added him to my ignore list, and promptly removed my handles from my profile.

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