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I never get that problem when using Maya.
I used to set my status to Away all the time, but now I just leave it as Online. There's a 50/50 chance I am there, but I just leave my computer on all the time and MSN is always signed in so people can just leave a quick message.
Anyone who gets pissed off from this fact seriously just need to disable their connection and go play outside for awhile.
The way I worded that was weird. Maya doesn't go full full screen if you know what I mean. It maximizes but still sets my status to busy. It's kind of frustrating because I sometimes miss messages.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
If I'm away, well... I'm away.
If I'm busy, you're welcome to chat, I'm however probably playing GW.
I never use the statuses. If it says I'm online and I don't reply it means I'm AFK. If I'm on I always reply.
I stay constantly on 'away' because that way people won't expect me to be there. Most of the time, I'm not there, so this means people are less likely to be disappointed following any amazing feeling they get of the possibility of me actually being at my computer.
Also, if I am at my PC and I don't feel like talking, then people can send me messages and I can just ignore them and they won't cry. Unless they're Maxx Power, in which case they'll bitch in a thread about it. :mad2: :mad2: :p
But yeah, it's just how I roll.
I use gimp now so I'm not out to lunch as much as away.
I don't even know why. You know I'm almost always at the pc anyway unless I'm:
- drunk
- partying
- sleeping
- eating
- passed out from the above
Yeah, alot of the time I just wander off the computer in the middle of a conversation and come back half an hour later and my contacts are all offline. I GET DISTRACTED and I can never be bothered typing out 'BRB' a million times. I always sign in as 'Appear offline' to begin with though and only use the 'Busy' or 'Away' if I'm doing college work or I'm on a game.
You pass out from sleeping? You should have that looked at :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Pureghetto
This may be controversial and extreme , but when I'm not in a chatting mood I just don't sign in...
If I am busy/away, then I say I'm busy/away as a status message. If I don't feel like talking to people but am waiting for someone, I'm invisible. (Very rare) if I'm really busy, I sign off :p
The people who are online but set their status to 'busy/away' immediately are attention-seeking whores who should be burned at the stake.
I am only away if I am away.
How is it attention seeking? Surely that would have the opposite effect, given you're telling people you are unavailable for attention.
This thread is a prime example of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
My MSN status is permenantely away because I used to (and kind of still do) have a lot of people on my list that I don't know that well and wouldn't want to talk to that often but still keep because I would feel bad removing them.
People have already figured that I'm not really away though (even though sometimes I am, because I sometimes figure out that I have to leave/go out 5 minutes before I have to and don't turn off my computer) especially when I have music on and it shows on the status thing (again, not always on).
I just use an auto-message to tell people I'm afk if I'm idle for more than five minutes, because I never remember to turn my away status off when I come back if I set it manually. That said I sometimes can't be arsed talking to everyone who messages me.