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Loony BoB
05-29-2013, 09:38 AM
Do you use them a lot? I do. I love 'em. Preferrably personal ones, not asking me to do something. I don't like those ones. Just... tell me what's up with your life or something, and we can go from there! I like getting to know people in a more private situation where possible and I don't often get that chance with a lot of you who aren't around at the times I am.

I'm in a majorly social mood lately and I'm stuck at work, so this will basically have to do. I'm pretty sure that when I'm home I'll probably end up busy with various other things which doesn't help much, either. I also love phonecalls, but that's another story. :smash: I use PMs for randomly catching up with people, organising meetups, sending information to myself so I can pick up on it when I get home from work (sort of like a notepad for my account at EoFF), whatever. I don't like visitor messages as much because I prefer privacy, but that's just me, I guess. I still use Visitor Messages for quick things like saying when it's someone else's turn on Triple Triad.

Talk about PMs and how often you use them, what you use them for, etc.

Pike
05-29-2013, 10:44 AM
I don't them very often unless it's for like... EoFF related stuff? No one ever PMs me just to chat, though.

Pheesh
05-29-2013, 10:50 AM
I rarely use them. I do most of my chatting in chat, or occasionally via VM's.

Shlup
05-29-2013, 11:01 AM
I don't really initiate conversations with people so I don't use PMs very often.

Pike
05-29-2013, 11:14 AM
I don't really initiate conversations with people

oh man, this is me.

Huxley is the only person I will ever start a conversation with. With everyone else I'm terrified I'm bothering them or interrupting them or something and I'll just wait for them to talk to me first.

This is how I end up with millions of people on AIM/MSN/Skype/Steam and then never say anything to them.

Chris
05-29-2013, 11:23 AM
Never. I often ignore or forget to reply back when I get a PM. :(

Aulayna
05-29-2013, 11:41 AM
People only PM me when they want something!

Night Fury
05-29-2013, 11:56 AM
I am the worst with PM's and texts etc etc

I get them through to my phone. So I read em on my phone and then I'm like "Oh yeah I'll reply to that later"

3 weeks later. Oh shee-it! :lol:

I do use them a fair bit. Usually for editory stuff or when Loony BoB is harrassing me (ilu really) :heart:

Agent Proto
05-29-2013, 02:04 PM
I use Private Messaging from time to time, and I don't really mind getting them as well. I guess to me, it's like a starting point at getting to know another EoFFer.

Tigmafuzz
05-29-2013, 02:11 PM
"Private?" Does that mean, like... only ten people can see it?

Psychotic
05-29-2013, 02:11 PM
I have PM chains with several EoFFers that have been going on for years. I love having PM friends! I usually reply daily or weekly though as I get a bit lazy sometimes. :shobon:

Shauna
05-29-2013, 02:14 PM
With everyone else I'm terrified I'm bothering them or interrupting them or something and I'll just wait for them to talk to me first.

This is how I end up with millions of people on AIM/MSN/Skype/Steam and then never say anything to them.

Aye. xD

I don't use PMs that much. Maybe I should use them more, pick random people to PM on a day to day basis.


...nah. The fear mentioned earlier is a reason to never talk to anyone ever.

Night Fury
05-29-2013, 02:18 PM
I might actually start PM'ing people random shite now....

Shiny
05-29-2013, 02:22 PM
I don't PM people much but when I do, it's to tell them to get on instant messenger or Xbox Live.

Ultima Shadow
05-29-2013, 02:48 PM
I PM more than I post. Though I haven't had any long PM chains going for a little while now, I'd say my overall PM count since I joined would be somewhere around three times my post count.

Sometimes, I can take a little while to reply, but even if I happen to be busy with something, I don't mind getting PMs since I can just reply to them when I do feel I have the time. So yeah. :p

Shorty
05-29-2013, 03:41 PM
Not too often. There are a couple people who I reach out to via PM if I need something. Mostly everyone here who is my friend is on Facebook, so I use that instead~

Quindiana Jones
05-29-2013, 03:51 PM
I remember PMing Paul about the alt text in his sig, and the same message lasted for literally years and years and is the reason we are friends. The quote pyramids we had would make Rantz bloody furious! :D

I might message some members I like and see if I can get better acquainted with them. Maybe I'll even come to like them as actual people. :eek:

Shauna
05-29-2013, 04:14 PM
Don't talk crazy now, Quin!

Freya
05-29-2013, 04:28 PM
PMing people is what got me into this website! I occasionally will send something out to people. I love chit chatting. Sometimes it takes me along time to reply though because i'm busy and if you have a lot to say I don't want to just have a short reply from my phone.

Psychotic
05-29-2013, 04:57 PM
I remember PMing Paul about the alt text in his sig, and the same message lasted for literally years and years and is the reason we are friends. The quote pyramids we had would make Rantz bloody furious! :D

I might message some members I like and see if I can get better acquainted with them. Maybe I'll even come to like them as actual people. :eek:
The Oncoming Storm.

CimminyCricket
05-29-2013, 04:58 PM
I don't use PMs that much at all, but there was a year where 9-10 times a day I'd be PMing LunarWeaver, Psy, Roto, Levian and depending on how grumpy his grump ass was, Tavrobel.

Jinx
05-29-2013, 05:39 PM
I think we need to start some PM game.

Unbreakable Will
05-29-2013, 07:02 PM
I often tell people I'm not a conversationalist, I'm a commentator. I just don't have the drive to really start up a dialogue so unless something interesting happens I want to talk about or I'm trying to build a friendship I generally let people come to me.

:gator:

Calliope
05-29-2013, 07:26 PM
Query

Lonely Paper Star
05-29-2013, 07:32 PM
People sometimes PM me on here, but I don't like using them that much. I find PMs a little cumbersome for my taste. But usually, when I do use them, it's for EoFF event-related stuff or something.

Shorty
05-29-2013, 07:55 PM
I think we need to start some PM game.

TELEPHONE

Jinx
05-29-2013, 07:58 PM
I think we need to start some PM game.

TELEPHONE

Could that work with written text? xD Unless we did Vocaroo!

Raistlin
05-29-2013, 10:17 PM
I'll use PMs intermittently. Some weeks I'll send a bunch of PMs, but then other times I'll go for a while without any. Most of them have to do with EoFF stuff.

Formalhaut
05-29-2013, 10:21 PM
I PM all the time with a few people. Right now, I've got a regular correspondence with Yerushalmi. It's very fun.

Besides that, it's mostly for EoFF task related stuff and stuff.

escobert
05-29-2013, 10:51 PM
No not really. Not that I talk to anyone from here very much anyways.

Jowy
05-30-2013, 12:18 AM
No, because they can be looked at by the administrative staff with the correct vB hacks. I prefer using IRC or Skype.

NeoCracker
05-30-2013, 12:22 AM
Because as we all know the staff have nothing better to do then Spy on Jowy's PM box.

Jowy
05-30-2013, 12:41 AM
It makes me paranoid regardless of the fact!

Denmark
05-30-2013, 12:45 AM
I'd spy on Jowy's PM box if I had the power.

edit: wait is "PM box" not an innuendo

Jowy
05-30-2013, 12:49 AM
"You have 2,378 messages stored, of a total 65,535 allowed."

Does everyone have that extra bigass inbox now?

Raistlin
05-30-2013, 01:04 AM
Yeah. It used to be only for staff... then for FS, then for RMs, then for people who paid for it. And now everyone has "unlimited" PMs, as far as I know.

Citizen Bleys
05-30-2013, 04:03 AM
This thread is tempting me to just PM random members with stupid shit like mathematical formulae and lines from Two Gentlemen of Lebowski

Ouch!
05-30-2013, 04:40 AM
I rarely receive messages and even more rarely send them. It's not a feature I've ever used particularly heavily.

Loony BoB
05-30-2013, 09:35 AM
I've got 14,516 PM's stored out of the 65,535. If I got as many PM's received and sent as I did yesterday on a regular basis, I would run out of room in two and a half years. xD

theundeadhero
05-30-2013, 02:21 PM
I can't remember the last time I sent a casual PM.
I can't remember that last time I received a casual PM.
They were probably within a day or two of each other.

Rantz
05-30-2013, 05:25 PM
What's the PM version of sexting? Mognex? Either way, that's what I use it for.

Shorty
05-30-2013, 05:27 PM
Oh really.

theundeadhero
05-30-2013, 09:12 PM
You should play strip PM. It's like strip poker.
I'll let you figure it out.

Unbreakable Will
05-30-2013, 11:09 PM
:hyper:

Pike
06-01-2013, 01:40 AM
I've got 14,516 PM's stored out of the 65,535. If I got as many PM's received and sent as I did yesterday on a regular basis, I would run out of room in two and a half years. xD

BoB what the hell. xD I'm going to be shocked if I have more than 200 PMs total.

Edit: Apparently I have 312. Color me shocked.

Miriel
06-03-2013, 11:45 AM
I PM people all the time. Like a hundred PMs a week to dozens and dozens of EoFFers. If you haven't gotten a PM from me in the past week, it probably means something terrible and should be considered a big snub.

Loony BoB
06-03-2013, 11:48 AM
:(

Aulayna
06-03-2013, 11:56 AM
No, because they can be looked at by the administrative staff with the correct vB hacks. I prefer using IRC or Skype.

But I enjoyed reading all that errotic yaoi you have saved in them...

Loony BoB
06-03-2013, 12:01 PM
We can see people's PMs if we plug our way through the vB database but I don't think anyone on staff would actually do that intrusively. We have logs that show all queries that are run anyway - I know I've looked up my PMs in the database before, though, along with those specified by other people that were giving them problems (back before we had the reported post feature). I don't believe they've ever been looked at without the permission of either the sender or the receiver.

Freya
06-03-2013, 04:57 PM
You have 3,108 messages stored, of a total 65,535 allowed

Yahhhhhhh

noxious.sunshine
06-03-2013, 06:56 PM
I never get PMs.

I feel so lonely and left out. ;_;

I kid. I kid. PMs are fun, but I'm still a n00b, so. yeah. XD

Tigmafuzz
06-05-2013, 02:37 PM
I think we need to start some PM game.

TELEPHONE

Could that work with written text? xD Unless we did Vocaroo!

You weren't here for EoFF Pictionary?

Rebellious Eagle
06-05-2013, 02:42 PM
I rarely PM because I'm shy but I do enjoy getting them a lot (hint hint) :D

Pumpkin
06-05-2013, 05:53 PM
We can see people's PMs if we plug our way through the vB database but I don't think anyone on staff would actually do that intrusively. We have logs that show all queries that are run anyway - I know I've looked up my PMs in the database before, though, along with those specified by other people that were giving them problems (back before we had the reported post feature). I don't believe they've ever been looked at without the permission of either the sender or the receiver.

Pontus looked at my PM's once :mad2:.

That fact that I asked him to is irrelevant >.>

I PM once in a while. Not usually for nothing or casual chat though, that's what I use the visitor messages or chat for :monster:

Aulayna
06-05-2013, 11:39 PM
As a result of this thread I've started PM'ing some people.

Are you happy now BoB? ARE YOU HAPPY NOW!?

Loony BoB
06-06-2013, 10:37 PM
PM'ing people is a fantastic thing, so, yes.

Goldenboko
06-06-2013, 10:39 PM
PM-ing people is what really gott me sticking to this site. Back in the day I used to have huge private message conversations with Leen-Leen, Dynast-Kid, Psychotic, and much, much more! :)

Now I mainly just PM for stuff I do for the site and for surveying newbies. For interacting with peeps I use chat.