Quickly! Busy yourself!

[tan]

Have you ever tried to talk to someone (online or offline) who suddenly starts busying themselves (or saying they're busy doing some other trivial thing) just to not talk to you?

It's happened quite a few times online to me, though I'm not quite sure whether the person was actually busy or not, and now I feel stupid because I would always say sorry to them just because I said hi and they suddenly said they're busy. I mean, I shouldn't say sorry because it's sort of obvious that whoever does that doesn't like me, so I shouldn't have bothered in the first place. Anyway, offline, I remember it happening when I tried to say thank you to a man for letting us stay at his camp for this Unitown camp thing, and he shook my hands and ran into his car to leave as fast as he could. I wonder why o_o It hasn't happened to me that often offline, considering I don't talk to many people besides my friends, who wouldn't do that unless they were actually busy.

[Xander]

If they're on msn and busy, they should make their status busy, if not then they should expect you to talk to them I don't think it's really happened much. Some of the people I talk to lately are busy a lot, and have become busy when I've come on a few times, but I imagine it's by coincidence, I have also been busy pretty and sometimes just disappear or whatever. When you get more going on in your life I think you tend to worry less about being polite on msn..

If they just didnt wanna talk to you, they'd block you, so don't worry about it People are busy a lot, it's just an annoying thing about life. Not enough time.... and in real life, no I can't think of anything.

[Rye]

I've done a few times, but not because I didn't want to talk to the person, but because I get shy sometimes and I don't know what to say. xD

[Christmas]

I usually do this only to creepy people like NANNY MANUS.

[rubah]

Sometimes when people message me, I am rather emotional and do not wish to bother to take the time to talk about whatever little petty thing they have to say, because perhaps I *am* doing something more important with someone more important to me than they.

You gotta stop being so transparent, tan.

[Mirage]

I don't always bother changing statuses. If I say I'm busy, then I am. Maybe I'm busy talking to someone else on MSN?

[Xander]

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.

[kikimm]

Have you ever tried to talk to someone (online or offline) who suddenly starts busying themselves (or saying they're busy doing some other trivial thing) just to not talk to you?

Haha, I'm the kind of person that does this. :D but yeah like Xander, I also got rid of most of the people on my list. Well, not got rid of, but I got a new address. Just cause I hated talking to 5 or 6 people at the same time while trying to surf the net. I can't do it. I try to keep it to 3 people at the max! So if you're the 4th person, sorry man (Not that I am speaking to anyone in particular when I say "you").

And like Rye I also get very shy, feel like I'm not entertaining enough, etc.

[Resha]

Usually I just set as my status as busy/away constantly; people who know me well enough know that it's a lie and they talk to me anyways~ If at any point I really am busy doing homework or something, I find it's entirely better to just not be on MSN at all. Way too distracting.

[Roto13]

I know someone who used to set his status to "away" as soon as I would sign in. I don't know why. He's always the one who starts conversations.

[Zeromus_X]

I hope not.

[Levian]

If there's someone I don't like then I just go "omg look over there! " and then I block them when they're looking the other way.

Actually I don't have this problem because the only ones who talk to me on MSN is Rye, Psy, Cz and the occasional theundeadhero, DK and Mullet.

[Nominus Experse]

If I don't want to talk with you, I either change my status to avoid these "problems", or simply say 'smurf you' or simply close their window as soon as it appears in the lower right-hand part of my window.

[Vikeve]

I have done it with one particular person who could not take a hint nobody here though. But with mostly anyone else i ignore them and they'll know i just don't feel like talkin if im in a cruddy mood.

[Millia Billia]

If I'm really busy I'll tell them I can't talk because I am busy. If I just don't feel like talking, which is rare but does happen occassionally, I'll tell them I just don't feel like talking.

I prefer honesty.