I agree with those, especially rubah, (sometimes if I feel crap I dont even wanna speak to the most important people) but I just mean if you're really too busy and are going to get annoyed with people talking to you use the status. Otherwise yeah, maybe you are busy with someone else or whatever. Though that's why I whittled my msn list to pretty much a few people, so I don't get that. Just one annoyng thing about online conversation you can never really tell whats going on with the other person.