Fie on you!

[Tallulah]

I'm always on Appear Offline...

[Araciel]

General concensus: I hate you all.

[smittenkitten]

I have my messengers on all the time, but can't be bothered to change from away whenever I'm actually on.

[rubah]

okay my status is 'available' SWARM ON ME, HORDES.

[Captain Maxx Power]

General concensus: I hate you all.

Welcome to the Dark Side.

[XxSephirothxX]

I like using status messages and believe in the idea of people being able to leave me a message anytime, even though this is never actually necessary. Self-important ftw.

[theundeadhero]

Dude, just say hello to see if I'm there or not. My messenger might say I've been away for hours but maybe that's just because I haven't talked to anyone on it for a while.

[Sarc the Swordsman]

I'm kind of fed up of MSN at the moment. I always talk to people when they message me...but recently certain contacts have just really been annoying me. I need new people to talk to!

Feel free to add me: drew_james_89@hotmail.com

I'm always up for a good chat! As for bad MSN habits...sometimes I get distracted by youtube for a few minutes.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I sign-in offline. Most of the time I stay offline and only message those who I want to talk to. Eventually I might change my status to online, away or busy depending if I want to be bothered or not or that whoever I talking to wants to send something to me so I need to change my status. If I am going to get the mail or doing something in the kitchen or just away from my computer for five minutes or so, I will not change my status. Very rarely, while I am online, I will end up falling asleep. How that happens is I am set to online but I lay in bed to read and fall asleep in bed. :/

Annoying are those who expect me to reply ASAP. -__-;

Most of the time when I am online people do not message me anyways so I just lurk offline since it is less of a hassle.

[~*~Celes~*~]

I sometimes accidentally leave msn signed in while I'm asleep and so I'll wake up to several "Kari? Are you there?" messages D= But most times, I'll remember to sign off.

I always have skype running because I talk to Alan on it =] Aim, I'm hardly ever on because I only use it to talk to my school friends.

Other than that, I try to set messages if I'm gone somewhere for hours on end. I ALWAYS find "are you there?" messages anyway though >.>

[Sarc the Swordsman]

I always sign off if I know I'm going to be away from the computer for a decent amount of time. Even if it's only ten minutes to so, I'll at least change my status or personal message on MSN to away.

One thing I can't stand though, is when people ignore you when you message them. >_< (And they change their message and things so you know they're online.)

[Blue Harvest]

I always sign in as appear offline and change it to online straight away. I always change to away unless I'll only be gone for a few seconds, in which case I'll tell whoever I'm talking to.

[Jessweeee♪]

I always sign in as appear offline and change it to online straight away.

Me too

Otherwise my computer freezes if people message me as soon as I sign in x.x

[Breine]

I only use MSN sometimes, but when I use it I'm pretty much always online. Really dislike the "away" thing as well.

[Cloudane]

Heh, many years ago when I was in school, the internet was small and cute and grey and ICQ was all the rage... I'd leave it on 24/7. But then there was only a couple of close mates on it anyway.

Nowadays I don't like IMs much. It's not like I'm completely anti-social, but sometimes it's annoying when I'm trying to browse the web or write forum posts and there are a bunch of people bugging me with small talk. I could just leave it on 'Busy' but I'd be inclined to leave it on busy all the time so instead I just don't bother running it

If people want to "chat" and make small talk there is always facebook/bebo/etc or even email. Those who are likely to have an actual purpose for contacting me already have my mobile number, so IM is pretty much redundant and mostly annoying.