Stalkilicious, baby.

[Quindiana Jones]

Topic: What are you Messenger habits/rules/things etc?

I log on and "Appear Offline" until I see someone I want to talk to. When I'm online, I am always set to "Away" so that I don't get flooded with people saying "HEY!" and the leaving. If someone adds me and I don't know them, I ask who they are. If I still don't know them, or they don't respond, I block them. For the most part, I'll do my best to try to start up a conversation with someone, but I'm quite forward and (brutally/naively) honest which repels a lot of people and stops them talking. Bah, I say!

Currently there are 18 people online for me. Nice people, mostly. But I can't be bothered, haha.

Anyway, I think the most common thing is the fake Away/Busy thing. If I'm actually away, I'll put Be Right Back. Otherwise I'm probably there. xD

[Croyles]

I always log on as "appear offline" too. Problem is, I think EVERYONE does that... No wonder hardly anyone is online, because no one is online heh.

[Roto13]

Yeah, I'm rarely set to appear online any more. :P I just can't be assed. Not that a bunch of people message me when I do appear online, though. xP

[Avarice-ness]

I usually sign on as appear offline. If someone add's me and I don't know who they are, I'll add them but have them blocked until I figure out who they are.

[Denmark]

If I'm online, I'll appear as such, though often "Away" or "Busy" or some such nonsense. If I'm not online, I'll be not online. It's less confusing that way, methinks.

[Bunny]

I have a grand total of 22 people on my AIM list. Of that twenty-two, I talk to two or three of them daily. The rest I have not talked to in months but haven't deleted them because I can't be bothered too. I only set myself to away when I am actually away because the people I talk to don't bother me that much.

One of the people I rarely talk to is a member of this message board but she hates me and hasn't logged on in a long time so she can talk to me. I hate her too.

[rubah]

12+29+3+88+198+61+26+29 = 446. I'm pretty sure I've merged all the duplicates by now, too!

I sometimes forget to take my away message off, but if I'm on-line, you can message me and be sure I'll see it at some point! But not too many people msg me ;.; stu and peegies and ouch mostly!

[Levian]

When I'm online, I am always set to "Away" so that I don't get flooded with people saying "HEY!" and the leaving.

I like to punish people who do that by inviting them to mass conversations. DON'T ABUSE THE AWAY BUTTON!

[Quindiana Jones]

Psh. You'll have to add me before you can punish me, fool! MWUAHAHAHAA!

[Roto13]

When I'm online, I am always set to "Away" so that I don't get flooded with people saying "HEY!" and the leaving.

I like to punish people who do that by inviting them to mass conversations. DON'T ABUSE THE AWAY BUTTON!

That is a fantastic idea. <3 I hate people who abuse the Away button. It's like, if you don't want to talk to people, don't clutter up their MSN lists.

[XxSephirothxX]

I am online 24/7, though set to Sleep/Class/whatever when I'm not around. I never do any "Appear Offline" crap to see if there are people on who I do/do not want to talk to, but since I actually talk to very few people anyway, it's hardly important.

[Rantz]

I've made up a system, it's actually quite clever imo:

I put 'Online' if I'm online
I put 'Away' if I'm away
I put 'Busy' if I'm busy
I put 'Be right back' if I'll be right back
If I actually don't want to talk to anyone, I log off

[Psychotic]

If I'm playing some online game and can't reply quickly it'll say Busy. If you're really lucky you might see it say "Out to lunch" sometimes.

[Roto13]

If there's someone I don't want to talk to, I block them. :P

[o_O]

I'm only ever really on MSN at work, where it automatically switches me over to "busy" depending on the programs I'm using. Chances are though, that I'm not actually busy and will quite happily talk to anyone that messages me.