Category: Let's talk
Hi all,
I was on vipconduit talking ione night, and i had skype open while i was on the site. I don't do that all the time, and i don't have skyupe open that much, but since i don't have that many people on my contact list, I can be on there for hours and noone ever calls me on it. anyway, I got a dialogue that came up and put me on an options button, so I dedu ced that someone just added me. since he had the same first name as someone i'd talked to right much on the site, I just assumed it was him and hit space bar on ok. After i saw his full name and lo cation I thought, oops, looks like i added someone i'd never spoken to in my life, someone i didn't know at all. I considered deleting him, but am hoping it's someone i talked to from somewhere else, like accessible chat, for the people, or audio tips, or mirc. My question is, how do people find you on skype if they don't know you? all i remember typing in my profile for sure was my state, no city, and wonderwoman. aside from that, it was so long ago i can't remember what else i may have put in there. So what are the odds of someone looking for someone in north carolina by the nick name of wonderwoman? He was in south carolina. I for instance, don't care where people i talk to are, because I have no interest in meeting them personally, so it doesn't matter to me where they are, in fact, I'd rather they be far away rather than close by. Anyways, has anyone here had someone add them and think, do i know this person? and if so, what did you do when it happened?
wonderwoman
I have it happen everyday watch out for sex fiends though. you have the name of a female super hero and they may come at you for sex dont worry though most if you tell them no they will just be your friend and never ask that again. If you want it so that people can only contact you if there on your list set that in the privacy options.
I had a German girl add me because she went to college in Missouri and was looking for someone who sported a German last name. Point is: People search and add for interesting, different reasons. She turned out to be nice, so...all's well that ends well.
glad it worked out wel for you jmbauer, and jenny, I did set it to only people on my contact list, but i suppose anyone can add you no matter how you have that set. the big r on vipconduit definitely advises against having it set to anyone can contact me. I'll have to try and find my profile and read it so I can refresh my memory about what i put in it, but if he calls me, the first thing I'm going to ask is do I know you from some chat program?
wonderwoman
Well it's like your own personal telephone, people just think of any strange number and throw their fingers on the numbers panel and start dialing huh? Same way with skype I guess that's the way it works. Me myself I barely have any contact info or anything in my profile, hell I haven't even editted the damn thing since I first installed the damn thing. I had this Chinese dude do a text chat with me. He had the same username oops not the same username but something simular to my screen name like medical products yongo surgerical dressings and I have the same username on skype as I do on the zone and this guy had the bloody nerve to chat with me asking me am I a manufacturer I'm like no and who the hell are you? He's like I'm from China I believe he was a salespersonal or something. I told him I don't know him and that I don't wanna buy products from him he's like will you be my friend? I'm like how will I be your friend and I don't know you? And I kindly asked him not to write me again he ended up doing it anyway and kept on writing me so I blocked him from skype and he never wrote me again.
yep anyone can search for you and find you unfortunately. I never add randoms either but I do get them trying to add me all the time.
well he sent me a text mesage once on skype, but skype doesn't automatically read text messages in chat, i mean jaws doesn't read them automatically, and sin e i wasn't focused, i didn't get it right away, so didn't know if he was still there or not, and i haven't seen him online since, so maybe since i don't get on there that much, maybe he's taken me off already, but if he calls me on it, the firstthing i'm gonna ask is, who are you? I mean he's not even in a foreign country. and medical queen, this guy in china sounds almost like lutherk here on the zone. he messaged me on christmas eve here, and after asking how i was doing, he said he liked my audio profile, and he said he'd like to call me if i was still awake. I told him I didn't take calls from people I don't know, and I wasn't looking, second,I'm almost 48 years old, probably old enough to be his mom. I thought for sure that would be an instant turn off, like, 48, yucki, and he'd just go away, but no, he messaged me back, said he wasn't wanting to be my boy friend, he was just trying to be a friend. I told him no again, i don't call people i don't know. so he said he'd give me his information and phone number, ande i could call him. I said, i do not call people i don't know, i do not receive calls from people i don't know, and there's no point continuing this discussion, because i was putting him on my ignore list, and so i did. so yeah, the guy in china sounds just like him, except he was in tennessee. I don't like text chat on skype anyways. I guess it's doable, but jaws doesn't read incoming text like it does on messenger.
wonderwoman
yes, jaws does. go get the scripts
well not the scripts I have. I have the scripts from panix.com. I didn't download them they were sent to me.
wonderwoman
I've heard that a lot of people from China and other countries like to skype with Americans to try to improve their English skills. I don't know if that's true, but that's what I've heard. I rarely use skype and never sign on unless I am planning to call someone or expecting a call from someone. So I have never experienced the problem of people I don't know adding me.
Hi all. I will try to state this as briefly as I can, while attempting to answer each point.
Yes, many chinese like to add people who speak English for the improvement of their skills and they do not want more. I have many contacts from China. Most of them are married or soon to be, so they aren't after anything.
One sent me a musical instrument from China actually. But that's not the point. If you go on the chat window, and you press alt 1 it will read the last message sent, or alt 2 for the previous and so on. That is, of course if you have the scripts and if you have not upgraded to skype 3.0.
I refuse random calls, preferring to have a few words on text chat before. Wonderwoman, would it be possible that you may have put your status on skype me mode by accident?
Cheers,
John
I always have skype running. Maybe because i'M male, I don't get random ads. I rarely talk to anyone on skype though, as most of my people are always set to unavailable, or do not disturb. Some others may have there stadis set to invisable, but I have Skype set to only show those that are on-line. Sometimes I wonder why I even have the program.
John
I've lost count of the number of people I've spoken to on Skype, either on text chat or with the microphone. You can block anyone from adding you, never set your status to skype me because even if you set your privacy settings to only allow people from my contacts or whatever, with skype me set, people can still add you. I never set mine to skype me, only online or whatever. However, from about version 2 upwards, you can allow your status to be shown on the web on certain websites, and people can add you that way. Since I'm a member of a foreign language website, I only have contacts from that site, and a fewfrom university or wherever. But the way I see it is, I don't mind people adding me, so as I can practice my foreign languages, my philosophy is, if you don't like them, just block them. and a good program that reads the skype chat etc is on: www.randylaptop.com
There's a program there called skype read, and that reads your contact list and chat messages as they come in. It uses the sapi5 synth.
THANKS TARA,
ACTUALLY THERE IS A TUTORIAL OF THAT PROGRAM ON THE VIPCONDUIT SITE FOR SUPPORTING MEMBERS, BUT IT SOUNDED A BIT COMPLICATED TO ME. I have skype 2.0. I never upgrade unless i absolutely have to. John, no, I don't have skype me mode on, no way. I don't have that box checked to show my skype status on the web. I'd really prefer addding people i've talked to before on other sites. if i do install that progrtam, will it affect the skype scripts I already have installed? should i uninstall them before installing it? it sounded rather dcomplicated to me, but i'll just put the tutorial on tape and recorded it. found out i had caps loock on for the first part of this post, sorry about that for those who havevision enough to see it. I frequently hit the caps lock when i mean to hit the shift key, because they're so close together.
wonderwoman
Oh and speaking of people calling you on skype when they don't know you I had this other person call me by the name of non_stop 10 that name may be familiar to you wonder woman or other zoners. He calls me with a broken mike for one, then secondly he text chatted me and I asked him what's up and he didn't even know what what's up meant needless to say. Then he kept calling me and hanging up and I'm like well ok? This jerk's playing on my mike. Had to block this person too he probably can't even speak good english for him to ask me what does what's up mean.
Speaking of this person he called me like an hour ago.
I'jm wondering if it's this guy who calls himself smart on vip conduit. if its him, he's in india. I talaked to him once when he did hve a mic, but the second time he said he didn't have a mic, and that makes the second time he didn't ave a mic. so i said, guess your mic broke on you didn't it. I mean, if someone doesn't have a mic the second time, we can't really be sure their mic didn't break. I've had this mic i'm using for 9 years, ever since my first computer, and it hasn't broken, but it could just be a good mic, i don't know. anyway, i had already told him once when he mentioned messenger and skype i didn't go on them very much. so the second time, he had changed his nick, forgot what he changed it to, and i said, I don't get on skype very much. he then says, please add me to skype or msn. I again said, I don't get on either one of them hardly any. he says then, I like you very much. and i told him I moved around a lot, never stayed in one place very long. he asked if i was thinking of leaving the room. i said, yes i was, i'd been in there a long time, and i saw someone in another room. so i just left very quickly, and went in a room wherethere were several people. that name doesn't sound familiar to me at all, but i suppose you can change your user name on skype, haven't loooked in to that. the one i've ran in to on vipconduit says he's 40, or 41 i think.
wonderwoman
Well he text chatted with me today and was like oh I want to see your photo I'm like um excuse me I have a BF already so can't do that. Then he messaged me again and you know how we all love to do multi tasking on the comp and he saw that I didn't answer him right away and thought I was ignoring him I think when he messages me again I'm gonna ask him how he managed to get my skype info.
well i have to admit i don't usually multitask if i'm talking to someone, but if you do multitaks while talking, he sounds like a good one to do it with, lol