..I know you're avoiding me

Okay, say you come online and then talk to someone. They go offline for some time, and then your connection knocks you off. They're back again and for five minutes are still there. You say " *poke* hey, your connection being silly too? :)" nicely, and then off they go again. Then think, "Hmm..maybe I'll appear offline and see what happens"..and there they are again! Makes me wanna come on again and see what happens :p

Does that make you prone to paranoia or is that not just in your head?

What makes YOU paranoid? :greenie:

You know, I've honestly never worried whether someone was blocking me or not.

I don't go on msn a lot anymore, but when I did I ignored the who's online list.

>>> There was a girl at MSN that I used to stalk many years ago, she never blocked me but she always went offline when I appeared..:luca:

I don't pay that much attention to the who's online list to even notice if someone was doing that. I generally only talk to a few people on MSN anyway.

I'm a mod on another forum and a GM for their RPG there and sometimes when I get IM'd and do not want to deal with crisis #38 for the day, I go invisible. I forget that I'm still in the chatroom sometimes though so they know I'm only invisible and not answering their IMs and I'm active in the chat. Opps.

I don't do that often. I am prone to getting distracted by other shiny things online and forget I'm having a conversation though!

I am terribly paranoid and think that everyone hates me just because they aren't talking to me.

I never really had this problem. Then again I am 27, so the internet wasn't as big when I might have found myself in the kind of drama described in this thread.

I've probably done that to someone else a loooooooong time ago (sorry!) but they were rather irritating and I didn't want to block them either. :p Now I only talk to one person on msn so I don't really have that problem.

I get paranoid at just about everything. If a detail is off, panic! If something seems odd when it really isn't, :s! Watch a scary movie, up half the night. Woo!

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Originally Posted by Bunny

I am terribly paranoid and think that everyone hates me just because they aren't talking to me.

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I wonder why.... :roll2


I usually keep myself on away and then I choose whom I wish to chat with...If I go online I get bombarded with nudges and animated winks throwing whatever at me :P

I am paranoid that no one likes me when they didn't quote this post and comment something nice about it. :(

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Originally Posted by Christmas

I am paranoid that no one likes me when they didn't quote this post and comment something nice about it. :(

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I like you! :jess:

You're meant to say something nice about the post.

Sometimes I get paranoid. But then I just stop caring. It's so much easier than trying to figure out the motives behind people's actions.

Nah, I only really use YIM and if someone wanted to avoid me specifically, they could just appear offline to me and online to their other contacts. So if someone ever was avoiding me I wouldn't know. If I "catch" someone being invisible, I figure they just don't want people bugging them, but still want the other nifty features of their IM client and I don't take it personally. I do it all the time, myself.

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Originally Posted by Sephex

I never really had this problem. Then again I am 27, so the internet wasn't as big when I might have found myself in the kind of drama described in this thread.

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yeah...that.

I may have done exactly this to 3 stalker girls. I spend most of the time appear offline these days.


So no, it's not in your head.

I haven't been on ims for years. When I used to do it I don't think I noticed anything like that.

In the cell phone world would this be the equivalent of your call going to voicemail after 1-2 rings?