I don't talk to people on IM services who ask who I am when they initiate the conversation. That's just bad netiquette.
Generally I don't talk to people via IM anyway.
On IRC, it's happened a few times, just because people have used nicks that I didn't recognize. I'm guilty of it, too, so no biggy.
I don't readily give out my screenname to people online, so I don't really have random online people contacting me. But I do occassionally have people IM me and I have no idea who they are but they end up being an old friend from middle school or a friend who has changed their screenname.
it took people a few months when I first joined here and starting chatting on irc and adding people to ljfriends to realize that jume=rubah=RubyLapiz
a few other people also realize that this also =neko_the_kitty=the_indigo_one=Thaddeus von Nauson.
People don't trick me too often. I like to rain on tessie's parade by pointing him out. Styles of speech and demeanor can be pretty revealing.
Azzie didn't believe me when I told him, but you can tell a person by their style of writing a lot better than most people imagine you can. Their diction, style of emoticons, style of text entry (tessie would be revealed and so would I, because both of us like to type in short lines with sentences spanning three or more lines) etc
I've talked to you roto, but I don't who you are, sheesh, I've talked to everyone here, except for Cid.
Isn't that the whole thing of the interweb?
Yeah. Who knew that justanotherguy was Hsu?
It sucks when someone talks to me from someone else's IM name and they tell me it's not them but then they won't tell me who they really are. Like a few days ago. I bet it was this one girl I boned and then it turned all awkward and she won't speak to me but then why did she speak to me over IM? Most likely her friend.
I either find out who they are using EoFF's lovely ol' Memberlist - Advanced Search feature, or else the LiveJournal's similar feature, or else they tell me, or else I ask. I don't have any desire to chat to someone I don't know, and I certainly won't add them to my list if I don't know who they are.
And when I say 'know' I don't mean 'have intricate knowledge of' I just mean 'know where they found my name from and why they are talking to me'.
People change their names all the time.
It's highly annoying.
Whenever I login to IRC, I end up whois-ing everyone all the time.
You've not talked to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick Schovitz