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May 16, 2006
I really hate AIM
Okay, so, having been a geek for a long while, I've had the same screenname on AIM since 1994. I've never changed it. Sometimes, people I knew in high school, when AOL was the place to be, will IM me out of the blue because they know my name. Occasionally, I get messages from the mother of my last high school boyfriend, whom I really liked - the mother, I mean. The boyfriend was okay too, I guess, but I digress. It tends to be the only way I communicate to some long-lost or faraway friends, so I keep using it.
I can deal with the IM viruses that send me the same message 8000 times, trying to get me to go to a website where I'll really like their profile. I've found a different client now that AOL's sucks. I turn off all the annoying sounds.
So what is it that drives me nuts? It's the schoo-aged kid named Wyatt who has given out my screenname to his friends. I understand why - they're a pain in the ass. They keep IMing me, despite my insistance that I'm not Wyatt. They ask my name - I give them the name of my high school calculus teacher, which I occasionally use to sign up for stuff where I don't want use my real name. They then tell me me "LOL Wyatt, cut it out." Eventually I warn them or block them and they go away for a while. But because names you have blocked show up when you edit your buddy list, I tend to delete them eventually, because I forget who they are or I just get tired of looking at them. They must have straightened it out with Wyatt by now, right?
Nope.
UPDATE: Diana's really mad at Wyatt, and another friend wrote to tell me that. I got this friend to give me Diana's phone number, but no area code...I'm trying to think of a way to get it out of them
MORE UPDATE: Diana has a profile on Xanga, which lists her location. I wonder how Diana's mom is feeling about her daughters computer use...maybe I'll call and find out...
HOPEFULLY THE LAST UPDATE: Another of Wyatt's friends IMed me and actually believed me. She said she'd tell people to stop or I'd call Diana's parents.
Posted by Janice Ryan at May 16, 2006 7:13 PM
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Posted by: pritu at January 29, 2009 11:24 PM
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