One of its many features
by ZombieSkittles on February 25, 2010
in Internet
The final piece of writing in my fantastic series of wonderful writings from years ago. This is the earliest dated one, from the start of July 2008.
I use MSN Messenger everyday. I hate making phone calls, and other than that there isn’t much other way to talk to everyone I know. So, most days I am on the internet, chatting away to various people; being social without needing to get off my ass.
More often than not though, I might go do something else away from the computer. I watch TV and dvds, might play a computer game on the other computer, or I might go out. MSN caters to such needs so I don’t need to worry about having to sign out all the time; instead I can just switch my status from online to something like "Busy", "Away", or "Out To Lunch". As a habit I normally just list myself as being away, because, I am.
What gets to me is I could set my status to away, and people still talk. It’s alright if I’m set to away but still at the computer, but when they hold entire conversations and get pissed at me for ignoring them, then I get irritated. The last thing I want to come home to after a night out is several convo’s that go like this:
Girl1: hi
Girl1: what u doing
Girl1: this sucks
Girl1: hi
Girl1: im bored
Girl1: hi again
Girl1: i talked to a brick wall today
Girl1: well i triede and u gave up so i cant do it
Girl2: hi
Girl2: hru
Girl2: hello???
Girl2: y arnt u tlkn
Girl2: do u hate me?
Girl2: y do u hate me
Girl3: Hello
Girl3: How are you?
Girl3: I’m bored :P
Girl3: I really need to talk to you…
Girl3: Well fuck you then.
To which I usually reply (whether they are signed in at this point or not):
"See the status? It is set to Away. Another way of saying Away is to say ‘I AM NOT HERE, DO NOT BOTHER TALKING BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT GET A REPLY AS THE PERSON YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO START A CONVERSATION WITH, IS CURRENTLY NOT HERE.’"
First off, girls overreact WAY too much.
Second off, what the fuck is the point of having "status" changes in MSN if no-one is going to bother paying attention to them? I set my status like that so dumbass people know I’m not there, and WON’T think I’m ignoring them. What is the fucking point then, if people ignore the status?
