November monthly poll

Wow - not sure how some of you have time to breath!!!

I have two - but only one as currently allowed.  Purely a means to trans Atlantic vid communicate with an old buddy.  Not sure I'd have time and patience for more but then - I am an old geezer!

off topic- but


Does anybody else "appear offline" a lot of the time to dodge... chattersons? You know, the ones that will waste time going on and on about stuff when all you want to do is go to bed and sleep, and will pause to make sure you're really listening, for you to respond- ugh, it's like having another girlfriend or something...

I often stay offline or invisible until someone I actually want to talk to comes on.  I sometimes still stay invisible whilst talking to people - I can't deal with multiple active conversations at all.
I can talk to about 4 people at once at the very most, if they're not too demanding.  I don't IM a lot anyway really.

I have about 15 contacts in Yahoo Messenger but they were mainly set up for PC-to-phone calls, not IM.  I rarely IM; I've probably only used IM with two or three people in the last two years.  And, some of the phone contacts were only one-time occurrences, so I could really delete some of my contacts.   

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I'm not a big "Appear Offline" fan unless I just need to talk to one person and dont plan on staying on very long at all... thus avoiding "g2g" on multiple conversations...

I do often set my status to Busy or Away though, especially when I have a headache.

maybe its because i'm a teenager or something but out of 70 contacts on msn normally about 7 are online at any one time , and if 7 are online normally i talk to 4 of them.

but i say that, normally I pile them all into one window and just have a big confrence conversation, saves alt-tabbing...

out of 70 contacts maybe i talk to 25 or so regularly?

I stopped having multiple conversations, because in my clumsiness everybody get's confused.

I only have a few.  It's amazing to me how people can get work done with so many messengers.  Everytime I'm on, someone sends me a message and I never get anything done. 

Good idea - bad idea!

I have 36 contacts.About half don't come online at all. And I actively only talk to about 4 of them. And I do admit to stayinf=g offline untill i want to talk to someone online.I Mostly wait for those "4" to talk to.I used to use aim a lot.But Only 2 contacts every now and than show up there so Im only ever on MSN.

I don't use IM of any sort;

and I remove any contacts that are added automatically to my email also

cheers
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All tough i found computerhop i dont have any computer my self, eigther webcam.
But in a half year or so i might get a 2 GHz prossecer and 2GB RAM, is taht good??
*Smiles*

depends what 2ghz cpu well anyways someone wanna close this?

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depends what 2ghz cpu well anyways someone wanna close this?

I don't see any reason to.....at least not yet.

off topic- but


Does anybody else "appear offline" a lot of the time to dodge... chattersons? You know, the ones that will waste time going on and on about stuff when all you want to do is go to bed and sleep, and will pause to make sure you're really listening, for you to respond- ugh, it's like having another girlfriend or something...

That describes me you can ask fireballs to.

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off topic- but


Does anybody else "appear offline" a lot of the time to dodge... chattersons? You know, the ones that will waste time going on and on about stuff when all you want to do is go to bed and sleep, and will pause to make sure you're really listening, for you to respond- ugh, it's like having another girlfriend or something...

Always!