AIM gripes
Jun. 29th, 2004 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperSpecifically, behaviour on it.
First, if my name flashes up onscreen and I don't automatically start talking to you? I'm normally doing something else. AIM starts up automatically when I turn the computer on or turn on outlook express. Most of the time I ignore it.
Second. You start talking to me and I don't respond. This is normally because of two reasons :
a) I'm away from the computer and was inconsiderate enough to forget to put the away message up. This is because if I'm not in the middle of a conversation, I forget about aim and the need to say that I'm not available to talk. Or I get called away and something outside the computer gets my attention.
b) I'm in the middle of something else that is taking up my attention. Checking ebay, working, figuring out postal prices, reading fic, reading my mail, paying bills, watching something, talking to someone else.... amazingly enough I use my computer for many other things.
So basically, if I'm not talking to you? I'm not necessarily ignoring you. Sometimes I just don't feel like talking to people. There are many, many of my friends that I will go weeks without saying much more than 'Hi' to them on aim occasionally, simply because I have nothing to say.
Whining at me that you're feeling ignored does not advance your cause. And really, saying 'I'm feeling ignored' because I'm not talking to you on aim but have visited you in real life and spoken to you on the phone several times in the same period does not help.
First, if my name flashes up onscreen and I don't automatically start talking to you? I'm normally doing something else. AIM starts up automatically when I turn the computer on or turn on outlook express. Most of the time I ignore it.
Second. You start talking to me and I don't respond. This is normally because of two reasons :
a) I'm away from the computer and was inconsiderate enough to forget to put the away message up. This is because if I'm not in the middle of a conversation, I forget about aim and the need to say that I'm not available to talk. Or I get called away and something outside the computer gets my attention.
b) I'm in the middle of something else that is taking up my attention. Checking ebay, working, figuring out postal prices, reading fic, reading my mail, paying bills, watching something, talking to someone else.... amazingly enough I use my computer for many other things.
So basically, if I'm not talking to you? I'm not necessarily ignoring you. Sometimes I just don't feel like talking to people. There are many, many of my friends that I will go weeks without saying much more than 'Hi' to them on aim occasionally, simply because I have nothing to say.
Whining at me that you're feeling ignored does not advance your cause. And really, saying 'I'm feeling ignored' because I'm not talking to you on aim but have visited you in real life and spoken to you on the phone several times in the same period does not help.
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Date: 2004-06-29 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-29 06:19 am (UTC)And so is my cousin! And the man over there known by the whole town as Elvis! And the postie! And the extremely fat hedgehog living in Jabba, the pile of old christmas trees now overgrown with brambles in our back garden!
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Date: 2004-06-29 07:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-29 10:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-29 09:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-29 02:46 pm (UTC)Still, best one was actually one of my cousins who stayed over for a weekend upstairs in the loft. Several days after she'd left, I went up there and discovered she'd left herself logged into Yahoo and had several windows open with friends accusing her of smelling and/or being gay, trying to get a reply out of her!