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How many messenger contacts do you have?

None
38 (28.6%)
Less than five
25 (18.8%)
Between 6 - 10
12 (9%)
Between 11 - 20
20 (15%)
More than 21
38 (28.6%)

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ChrisXPPro



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Re: November monthly poll
« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2008, 09:06:42 PM »
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!
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Re: November monthly poll
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2008, 10:33:06 AM »
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...
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Re: November monthly poll
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2008, 10:50:27 AM »
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.

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Re: November monthly poll
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2008, 11:11:02 AM »
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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Re: November monthly poll
« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2008, 11:40:25 AM »
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.

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Re: November monthly poll
« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2008, 10:33:21 PM »
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?

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Re: November monthly poll
« Reply #21 on: November 19, 2008, 03:10:37 AM »
I stopped having multiple conversations, because in my clumsiness everybody get's confused.
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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Re: November monthly poll
« Reply #22 on: November 25, 2008, 12:04:34 PM »
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. 

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    Re: November monthly poll
    « Reply #23 on: November 28, 2008, 03:43:12 AM »
    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.

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      Re: November monthly poll
      « Reply #24 on: November 28, 2008, 09:26:37 PM »
      I don't use IM of any sort;

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

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        Re: November monthly poll
        « Reply #25 on: December 03, 2008, 10:17:55 AM »
        All tough i found computerhop i dont have any computer my self, eigther webcam. :D
        But in a half year or so i might get a 2 GHz prossecer and 2GB RAM, is taht good?? :P
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        Re: November monthly poll
        « Reply #26 on: December 03, 2008, 05:35:07 PM »
        depends what 2ghz cpu well anyways someone wanna close this?

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        Re: November monthly poll
        « Reply #27 on: December 03, 2008, 08:04:21 PM »
        depends what 2ghz cpu well anyways someone wanna close this?
        I don't see any reason to.....at least not yet.

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        Re: November monthly poll
        « Reply #28 on: December 03, 2008, 08:06:16 PM »
        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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        Re: November monthly poll
        « Reply #29 on: December 04, 2008, 01:27:32 PM »
        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!