Category: the Rant Board
I hate fucking god damn people who can't wait till you log on here or on msn, and the mother fucking minute you log in, you get imed! jesus christ, give me 5 minutes to at least check the email or boreds or what ever. it really doesn't happen here, but on msn. oh boy! oh man! So, if any one reads this is on my msn, please wait 5 minutes or so before iming me, thank you.
Now, this is why I have turned off even private QN's. I guess people think it's polite to say hi to any warm body who logs on privately, but it seems more of a nuisance than anything else. Plus, the people who usually wanted to either just say hi or I assume initiate a chat, according to their profiles, didn't have a thing in common with me. If somebody has nothing in common with me, I'm very much less inclined to want to have a chat with them because I fear it will either be a train wreck or I'll be left having to carry the whole conversation.
I rather enjoy it! I enjoy talking to people! If someone is a jerk however I just put them on ignore!
well actually it doesn't bother me. I idn't mean for this post on here!
One of my pet peeves is when someone sends a private qn saying something like "hi, what's up?" and then after I answer doesn't say anything else. What's the point of acting interested in starting a conversation if you're not really interested. And why not read my profile before saying anything to see if we have anything in common?
Yes people do that to me as well. They say hi, i write back saying hi and i don't get any further replies.
Strange.
Well I avoid this particular situation by checking my e-mail before I go online on MSN. I stay on the "Appear Offline" deal until I'm done checking my e-mail and all that other shit. That way people will think your offline during this time, genius eh? Well it's more common sense than anything else, I guess.
That's often what I do. And in addition to appearing offline on messenger, I often log on the zone invisibly and stay invisible until I'm ready to chat.
you know one of my pet peeves about chatting these days is people who message you, then get all preoccupied with their multitasking and take a long long time to respond, or just stop responding altogether, i hate that. I feel like I'm just being used til something better comes along, and if you have to use me til something better comes along, or you are all ready doing too many things to keep up with, you really don't need to talk to me. it's really annoying with quick notes, because of having to keep continually refresh, refresh, refresh. its come to the point where i just want to come on here to do what I want to do then leave. The problem is, is that i'm not much of a multitasker, so when someone quicknotes me, or messages me, I'm not doing anything but talking to them and just focussing on them. I either have to have quicknotes all on or all off to get anything out of it, all or nothing, and since i can't enjoy public quicknotes for the obvious reasons, its nothing.
wonderwoman
I have a problem where when I haven't been on for a while they'll ask why haven't you been on? don't you like to get on anymore? When are you going to be on next so we can chat? It's called a life, and I have one and it's not the computer 24-7 thank you very much. If you want to talk to me pick up the telephone and dial my number and allow me to answer it. *note* Most people that do do this to me do have my number.
Troy
This also annoys me. Like, if I see someone sign in, i at least wait a few seconds to a minute before IMing them. I hate when I sign in and I get, like, twenty IMs. It just makes me frantic to get to them all, haha.
Yeah. I try to wait a few minutes before IMing the person to see if they might just be on to check emails or something. And I also have recently learned to use that "appear offline thing when doing something else, as some of my friends also have a habbit of typing fast and then expecting me to respond just as quickly wich is just as annoying, but foir that, I do tell them something like to wait, be patient, etc, (not each time they type something of course but sometimes right after I finish doing something). (That certain friend I think has gotten it by now and we're still cool with each other.) I also used to have (weirdly, usually foreign) pen pals that did this, but I'd honestly just ignore them 'til I was done with what I was doing (wich was usually already IMing with even just one other person) , and then I would explain about not being a really fast typer and about my using a screen-reader. I also don't like when people question why I haven't been online. There are times where even though I'm on the computer all day, I just don't feel up to having a conversation with anyone, (no offense to them but that's how I feel sometimes.) Now if they said something like "I haven't seen you online for a while--", "How have you been?", "What have you been up to?",, rather than "Don't you get online anymore?", or those other comments T-Roy had mentioned, I really wouldn't mind. But those later questions make me feel like I'd be going with a possessive
boyfriend who demands to know why I chose to do something other than spend time with him (which I know would really get to me.) I honestly simply tell people like that that I've been busy and haven't had time to chat. And when closing, I just teel everyone I chat with that I'll chat with them another time as I can't always have a specific time to put for that. The only times I'll agree on a time (providing I have the time of course), is if we've agreed to voice chat on Skype or maybe another website, or if they're going to call me or I call them (where I'll just aske for at least a general time on that), or if we're having a pretty interesting conversation and want to continue it next time.
Yeah I agree re: msn. But yeah appearing offline is a great idea, and one I'll take up. Cheers for that, Chris.
yep I'm the same. I have my msn to appear off line when I sign in and that way when I do sign in, I can be ready. for the most part it is annoying being greeted all at once, but on the other hand I must say how pathetic this topic looks. why does everyone has to be so bitter and think they're so hard done by? Lol ah well!
don't ask me rdfreak, i was just agreeing and commiserating wit the original poster, and with everyone else, lol
wonderwoman
i now do that, i had msn automatically sign in, now i don't i totally forgot, i just got really pissed when it happened. I'm sorry for putting so much useless shit on the boreds!
Yeah, it's really fucking annoying when someone IMs you saying what's up or whatever but then they have nothing to say or don't even acknowledge the message you sent in return. It's a waste of my time.
this is why I don't mesage people on windows messenger. if I message someone and they drop me for long periods or stop responding, I don't have a legitimate complaint, because they're entitled not to answer me if they don't want to or don't feel like it. When i first installed msn messenger, I added anyone who put out their msn messenger contact addresses, and I'd message them, and sometimes i'd be told they just logged in to read their email, talk to you later, and one woman said, actually I was just going out the door. Believe me, now, i'm not the one who asks other people if they have messenger, or asks if i can add them, believe me, i'm broken fro that. if i add anyone, it's usually when they ask me if they can add me, and I never message anyone first, they message me if they want to talk to me. For me to be the one to ask someone if i could add them, i'd have to have been talking to them quite a while, and i'd have to feel we had things in common, or i felt a common bond with them. Therefore, my skype andmessenger lists are fairly low. I don't call anyone on skype when i do log in to that either. Of course i'm on dial up, so the connection can be sort of iffy, but even if i did have a broad band connection, I wouldn't be the first to call a person on it.
wonderwoman
I hate that shit when i boot up my comp msn and shit logs in on auto so its all still logging in and people on msn mainly start in with video invites in foreign languages or with shit like voice clips that are loud. Not only that i got some that send me shit like talk talk talk as a first message what the fuck then there are the ones who send punctuation ok, those arent words kids or emotes shitif i send pictures to people they would think i am eliterate.
it really annoys me when people say hi and then they don't respond to you for a long.
Hi
lol lol, hi, back! lol
Shame that so many people think that saying Hi is now all of the content in the conversation. Back in the dinosaur age when I was young, people said hi to start a conversation. Then they said other things after Hi and sometimes they actually had things to talk about. Now everybody just goes Hi at each other and that's all that is said. OK, hi! So what, BFD, who cares, go away.
hi
hey
I'm not high.
I think people have such poor I M edicit because they are lonely indeviduals.
Hello, hi, hay, what's up. All in that order. Goodness.
hahahahahha oh my god. i was soooo immature back then. holy crap!!! lmfao! i didn't mean to bring this one back and i'm gonna look like a total dumbass but i don't care. i had to thrrow my two cents in 3 years later. wow, fresh from florida school for the def and blind i was :). ah the good old days....
you went to FSDB? I went for a few years awhile back... and omg Austin I'm going to send you all types of PQNs just to bug you, if it even still does three years later lol
and i was lost as all heck :). and tara, add me to msn and fb if you want to :).
This might sound harsh, but when people on here, especially ones I've never talked to before, QN me, saying nothing but Hi, I don't even bother responding. I'm definitely interested in talking to new people, but "hi", doesn't really show me that you're interested in getting to know me. In the past, I've said hi back, only to find that the conversation usually had large gaps, and I had to ask questions to get the other person to say anything more.
While we're n the subject ofthings that anoy us... I hate when I get a message like,
"Hi whats up" No punctuation at all. grrr. I just hate it. When I do talk to someone for the first time, I do quite often worry that I'll get stuck with the task of carying the whole conversation. I'm not all that good at small talk really. with that said though, I do enjoy making new friends, but I am just a bit shy for the first few minutes. I have skype now, and have pretty much been on it every day for the past 3 weeks or so, but if a total stranger calls me, I'll usually let it go to voicemail. The main reason for this is that I'm pretty near deaf, and am afraid I'm going to get stuck in a situation where I can't hear the other person. In a lot of instances, people think that the louder they yell, the clearer their speech will be. Please believe me. This is more than likely not the case, so keep it in mind if you should ever add me to skype. I do spend quite a lot of time on the computer, so feel free to drop by and say that dreaded word... "Hi!" LOL I couldn't resist the bit of humor.
Lmao. No. It's all good, and Hi is a good word, but with nothing else to go along with it....well, okay. maybe I'm a little too quick to judge when it comes to that, but I think of it this way: When someone you don't know meets you on the street, says hi, and nothing else, you probably say hi back, and continue on your way, but if someone says Hi, and then asks or says something else, you're probably more likely to stop and talk.
Well you all educated an old dog ... well Godzilla's a fellow curmudgeon if there ever was one ... lol
So even though I don't like bloatware like MSN or chat software, I seriously won't ever install it now.
Skype is all private / firewalled because I only use it for work.
On here though, I have seen some quicknotes from people I've begun to know, they tend to write as soon as I log in, provided I do have publics turned on. I'd say I'm experimenting on here with how all this works. Facebook is pretty easy because I never use their chat, rarely write on the wall and almost never write something without some form of irony. I'm mostly there to see what family and friends around the world are up to.
But here, well this site's kinda different. I have wondered if I got a message like wb or hey robo if it was rude not to respond.
Since I suck at names, and also people use their real names interchangeably with their user names, I don't always know if it's someone I met till they say something more.
I don't think I have the problems you all have had, but that's what ya get for bein' so damn popular ... lol and you can have mine.
My daughter though, she deals with it with text messages and things where a friend gets overmuch with it sometimes. I was gonna tell her to just tell her friend to piss off when they do that, but since I didn't want to ruin my chances of having an effect and get her and mom both against me, I just told her tell 'em go away.
Oh and BTW go away works, and when it doesn't you can always just go offline or ignore them.
Idon't like the 'hi' thing on here either unless it's someone I have met. I guess if they do that I just think they're being small-townish saying hi as you blow past.
So ya may have started this as a rant some years ago but it's served some educational purpose, for which I don't think you'll get a tax write off.
But as to having changed your feelings about all this? Well I and many of my friends all used to make fun of Myspace and Facebook, when we'd see nieces or daughters or whoever get stuck to them like a moth on a light. but now I use this place, which I found by accident on Google, Facebook, and Twitter. So ... things change ... lol
I get some people who only say "hi" and I just ignore them. Others interest me, but when I'm doing something, I usually finish what I'm doing before responding or I'll talk and do my thing at the same time. I also like when people read my profile because it gives us interesting things to discuss.
You're all gonna get it. I'm gonna qn you all with "hi." You have been warned. Mooahahaha.
I don't mind that so much. What I really hate, and this is just how I am, is that internet shorthand. U for you, 4 for for, 2 for to, b4 and that sort of thing. It really gets on my last nerve. In fact I tend to ignore messages or QNs that I feel contain too much of it.
Yeah. I'm not a huge fan of that either. I mean, we're not writing essays for our English class here, but...it takes a second or two longer to write the word out, provided you're an okay typer. If not, well, I appologize if I have offended you, then.
I don't think you personally have ever really gotten on my nerves like that. But it really sets my teeth on edge when I get Quicknotes that are entirely composed of that sort of thing. My x fiance Angel was really bad about that, whether it be text messaging or Emails.
I don't get bothered that much about that cause I can't see at all anyway.
I do hate when people say hi and I say hi how are you and they never respond. It's a bit rude.
Yes. That's why I stopped responding to such messages, unless of course I already know a person, and know they will respond back.
Makes sense.
Internet shorthand gets on my nervves precisely because of the way the screen reader reads it. So I tend to ignore people who send me too much of it.
ah I see.