This is something that has been annoying me for quite a while now, so bear with me if I get a bit carried away.
I seem to have the whole world and it’s dog on my msn list which consists of real life friends, friends from Germany, workmates, my housemates, ex housemates, people I know from Xbox Live and forums and some people from other websites. So it’s a big group of verydifferent people. I tried having several msn accounts, but gave up on that idea, as it was just too much hassle.
Maybe this is just me, but I don’t tend to initiate an msn convo with anyone, unless I have a set reason to talk to them, for example asking a question, asking how they are or just catching up (with real life friends). I have maybe 10 people that I tend to talk to every day. There are reasons why I talk to them and I don’t mind. They are generally on my other IM accounts as well.
Now what really annoys me are people that start talking to me on msn for no real reason. They are generally people I couldn’t care less about and the conversations are generally:
NAME says (18:14): good evening
Cat ftw says (18:14): Hey.
NAME says (18:15): how was your christmas?
Cat ftw says (18:15): Not too bad, how was yours?
NAME says (18:15): yeah not bad at all thanks
Cat ftw says (18:15): Good.
NAME says (18:16): so how have you been?
Cat ftw says (18:16): Can’t really complain. What about you?
NAME says (18:17): fine thanks
NAME says (18:17): same old really
Cat ftw says (18:17): That’s not too bad then.
Cat ftw says (18:18): What can I do for you?
And that was the entire conversation. Completly pointless, a complete waste of time. There are so many people that just say Hi and that’s it. What is the point? Why bother?
Talk to me, because you have something to talk about or tell me. Or maybe, because you need my help or opinion. Don’t just say ‘Hi, how are you?’ for no reason. I don’t have the time or patience for that and if you think you do, maybe you should consider doing something better for that.
Thanks for reading this. :)
Cat
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Yea i agree. My problem is i can’t remember who most of the people on my msn list are so it makes talking to them really difficult.
Whenever i talk to somebody i don’t usually talk to, i alway ask if they have time, which is something i wish people would ask me. The only time i will ever msn someone to have a pointless conversation is if its 3am, if i’m bored or if i just want to catch up with a close friend.
People just have this habbit of messaging me while i’m on XBL and then are upset when i don’t respond. I’m F***ing busy and just because i don’t “set my status” to away, i’m the bad guy? I leave my laptop on, i leave msn on, i leave Googlechat on; if i don’t speak to you I either don’t want to, I’m not there or i’m busy. Chill out.
haha, everyone has this problem, but its funny @ the convo you posted cat, i seem to get people doing this to me too
I still get that, even though my status is set to busy. The other day I was set to busy and 5 people started talking to me in less than 30 mins.
I have pointless conversations, yeah, generally at 3am or so aswell. It seems to be that time of morning when hardly anyone is on.
I get very suspicious if someone asks me if I’m busy, as I always think that they want me to do them a huge favour.
I mean I really don’t mind talking to anyone (well, most people), just the ‘Hi, how are you?’ is silly. You know, talk to me when you have a little more to say, people!
@ qs: Everyone seems to have that problem, why do people bother doing it then? It really drives me mad!
*tempted to annoy over msn*
nar, too lazy, sod that :D
If you do that, you WILL get blocked. So, think about it. ;)
Shouldn’t you be playing your shiny new 360 anyway?
Someone added me the other day, no idea who
Me – Hi, who are you?
Them – who are you?
Me – you added me, so I would assume that you know me?
Them – so who are you? (there was no question mark and the grammar/spelling was awful)
Me – If you don’t know me, why did you add me?
Them – I kinda know you, I got your email from a mate
Me – whats my name?
Them – Dunno, wanna know mine
Me – No
BLOCK
Turns out it’s my 1000 emoticon cousin’s best friend, the one who has a smily for every letter both capital and not for every word in the English language…
You think you got problems Cat? I can’t block my cousin, who does exactly what you described. Every day even if I ignore her :(
Well, time to block your cousin then. Blocking is temporarily and you can unblock her when you want.
I get people randomly adding me, and they get blocked, unless they tell me who they are. It’s silly, you add someone and then don’t know why? It’s just really, really silly.
You know what Cat,you should turn male for sometime,that way it’s pretty easy to get rid of those annoying conversations,otherwise just pretend to be offline/invisible.
*Looks around the blog for Cat’s MSN ID so he can add and annoy her with a conversation like the one she posted :P *
Ouch Cat. No fun. Can’t you put your self invisible/offline and reveal yourself to those few people you want to talk with?
Cat, I love your little rants. Keep ‘em up and have a cool New Year!!!
@ Ish: No chance! ;)
@ Sha: The appear offline option only works properly if both are using Windows Live Messenger. If the other person uses an older version more than 50% of the responses get lost.
And thankyou, Moose! Have yourself a very good New Year! :D
@Cat: What?! You denied me your MSN ID? Arghhh :(
It must be your amazing magnetic personality that draws everyone in like a black hole that can’t be escaped from fpmsl :D so how was your xmas? :P sorry im bad, couldn’t resist great rant though and as a totally off topic t’ing get star trek legacy incase i didn’t impress that enough on you last night as it’s the dogz danglies :D :D
Why thank you. I rant a lot, but I’m sure you know that anyway. ;)
I’ll possibly get Star Trek. Don’t really have much money though and there are a few other games I want. Will have to see….
Ah..okay..that is a pain.
I get the annoying contact thing. I had two HIGHLY IRRITATING contacts always popping up on me saying ‘hi’ and even when I’m busy ‘haylee y is ur status on busy?’ (Translation:haylee why is your status on busy?) I blocked her, and then a few days later, another Annoying Pop-Up Friend From School Contact came online, and ALMOST IMMEDIATELY popped up on me, this one even worse!
Annoying:”hi”
Me:”hi”
Annoying:”you ok?”
Me:”yeah thanks you?”
Annoying:”yeah im good thanks” (NOTE: At this moment I was thinking: Yeah, hurry up and GO OFFLINE!)
then the conversation had ended. (Or so I HOPED. I closed the window after she didn’t send anything for about 20 minutes) But then, about 10 minutes after me closing the conversation window:
Annoying:”I’m bored”
Annoying:”lol”
She repeated it loads of times, when I decided she took it too far. BLOCK.
Well, it’s her fault for irritating me =P
Yeah, Haylee, I get that all day long. Lately my status has been set to busy most of the time for the above reasons. Still, the other day I came back to the PC after 20 minutes and had 8 conversations waiting for me.
Very silly.
I read your rantings and I found this funny! But if you don’t want to talk to all these msn people just take them of your msn list than they can’t bother you anymore or like others suggested just block them.
Really don’t you get people on the phone just talking silly stuff also?
And what d you do then, amuse them with conversations you don’t want?
Well, there are some people on there that I just can’t block forever. So I tend to just block them for a few days.
But this post has solved most of my problems. It was my msn display messgae for a wekk and pretty much all of teh useless conversations have stopped. :)
Thanks for stopping by. :)
hey.. there is just one thing missing in ur complaints Carocat :).. There might be people who really care for u and even the most useless conversation is regarded as an emotional need for them.. Few people they r though.. I personnally feel worried that real friends on my msn are mad with me for a reason they do not wanna say when they do not answer.. Not a cool thing :).. give people a break by Just saying i am busy or blocking.. optimal solution :).. AND DO NOT GET CAUGHT BLOCKING BY ADDING 2 EMAILS FOR THE SAME PERSON!!
@Haylee what kind of person who would use the internet .. perhaps, daily, would not know all internet terms and abbreviations such as ‘y’ ?
thus your ‘translation’ to what that person meant, was completely and utterly useless.
LAWLZ THAT’S KEWL!
I also have problems with being blocked on msn.
I ahve several accounts
Tonight,my problems went something like this:
1) evening
(20:30) evening
(20:32) :anyone there?
(20:33) is now Offline
Account 2
2)
(20:43) : evening
(20:43) : is now Offline
Account 3
3)
(20:46) : evening
(20:46) : is now Offline
Account 4
4)
Session Start: 23 July 2007
(20:47) : evening, you seem to keep disappearing offline for some reason
(20:47) : is now Offline
Does anyone know what this means, and has it happened to anyone on here before?
Does it mean that the writing is on the wall for anything also?
Finally, do any of you have any helpful advice as to what I should do?
PS, Cat what is your MSN so I can try the conversation you showed at the top of the page to see what would happen?
Thanks all.
Stop fucking moaning and just tell the people straight… Fuck Off!
Simple really.
I some how stumbled upon this issue and when i look at the posts in here i laugh my nipples off, not because its stupid or your all idiots, but to the fact you won’t step up and make it know you don’t want to talk to people, leaves me to believe your just as closed minded in person and don’t express true feelings in reality thus making an ever on going loop of bullshit conversations in reality never mind M to the S and N.
Advice in a nice way…. Grow up some.
Just don’t talk to them, simple
Well, i know this girl called Faye, she isn’t very nice to me when I talk to her on msn, I don’t know why! She never really was nice, apart from the time whenever she added me on MSN. The conversations are not long probably “hi” and thats it, strange! There was a time when se signes into msn and said “hey” which I find strange because she told me that she doesn’t like me and never did. She also gets other people to talk to me on her msn who I don’t want to talk to, stupid as hell!! How immiture can you get, and she says im a looser and a pervert for no reason.
hi do u know charlotte anderson if ya do i am her mate and charotte goes to abbeygrangh
yeah that sucks.. but thy may just be trying to make conversation.. thats what i do :)
but i have had the same problem
It could be, yeah, but to only have that as conversation and nothing else is a bit odd.
Thanks for stopping by, folks. :)
I SO know what you mean! This happens to me all the time and is very awkward, especially when I barely even know them. And very often I offend them when I invent an excuse to get away. Oh… the trials of modern technology
lol heres what u do u go on msn in appear offline mode u have msn plus on ur msn so u can use scripts then u have this 1 script called appear offline helper this thing is a beuty u can stay offline and do everything u can if u was online so no more annoying little chats just talk to who u want send files recive them go for it its a nice handy tool
Yep, inventing excuses, I know all about that!
And this post was written before MSN had the appear offline feature. It’s a post from two years ago! ;)
ye well i have aloud of people on my msn and i dont know what to do block them ? talk to them ? so i would appreciate if you could email me back with some answers thankyou .
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