IM notice

To all those “friends” of mine who are pissed off by the fact that I never instant message them: 90% of the people I know on IM and 100% of those who have seemed upset by my ignoring them are marked as N/A, Busy, Away or invisible.

Why would I message someone who has claimed they aren’t there?

Oh you aren’t away you are just avoiding people you don’t want to talk to… ok. How do I know that’s not me? Am I supposed to keep a post-it by my computer with a list of those who are “fake” away on it?

No. Simply if you are permanently marked as busy or away etc I will NEVER IM you.

The same goes for people who are permanently marked as invisible. Like everyone who uses Yahoo. My third party clients see people as invisible whether I’m on their “visible ” list or not. Seriously folks, this all kinda defeats the whole purpose of using Instant Messengers. If you don’t want to talk to people then don’t use them. If you’ve got lots of wankers you need to avoid then change your messaging address.

Common sense prevails and I’ll carry on being rude if you carry on being awkward.

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