Online contacts

It seems to me that over a period of time, the amount of people on your MSN/chat client list that stop talking to you increases dramatically.
You talk with most of them, then you talk with one less, then with 3 less..
In the space of a year or two, you only end up talking with that one guy or girl whom you really like to talk to and the rest is just faded away because they don't give a **** about you anymore.

Has this happened to anyone and why does this happen?

Treval

 

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Maybe they just got tired of MSN and now spend more time with their real-life friends.

 

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And there Enmos with 36k posts speaks from real life social experience >.>

 

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i dont even use MSN anymore... I use Yahoo more then anything

 

You bet

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dont feel to bad, I am working on 800 and Ive been on here what, 2 weeks? haha

 

I don't feel bad at all. I have been here for almost six years and I know I post more often than the average member. So what?

 

Imagine the time spent on doing that.

 

And? What's your point?

 

lol, yours Posts Per Day: 17.66


mine Posts Per Day: 32.22

a week ago it was 56

 

Yea well, this is the only place I go on the internet. I hardly ever play any games, I'm not on Facebook or similar sites and I rarely use MSN.
So basically, it's SciForums and managing my photographs/videos.

 

What I hate the most is when I start to talk to someone and then they go AFK or offline. This really just furiates me. I wonder if they would have the guts to do that in my face. Ha.

 

They can do that because you are not a friend to them, just an internet contact.

 

Smells like Drama spirit ;0

 

Hmmm... I am one of those people that disappear on chat board

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Most of the time I login in invisible mode. I now just chat online with my brothers or sister. With other people, I just meet them directly or call them. It's much faster.

Don't feel bad if people disappear on MSN/chat board. Perhaps they're just busy or no longer interested in messenger board. I know I am.

 

i lied i have 119 friends on myspace

 

In honesty that is the convience of online messengers, the ability to do something else while communicating. If you want an indepth discussion and the full focus of who you talk to, then you obviously can't beat the old fashioned face to face. Of course this is where you find out if you have enough in common to generate a fully productive conversation that can last the time you are there with them.

As for people just dropping off messenger services. I have messenger handles, however I'm rarely logged into them, I think it would have to be a special effort (someone would have to arrange in advance) to get me on a messenger service.

I mean it was great shooting the breeze while young, hitting internet Chatrooms, IRC, using Usenet groups, but not it's not the same, the appeal is lost, it's not new it's old kinda fast (A bit like Facebook or online blogs).

The only people you can truly rely upon for online messenger friends or gaming networks are those that can't by choice have a fully active lifestyle. They'll be happy to cling to the only method of being able to communicate with people at a level where they aren't looked at wrongfully because of their disability or handicaps. Thats probably the only real pro to the non-physical social networking, it's ability to not care about your religion, your ethnicity or how many limbs you've got.