rant: stupid people should not use instant messaging

[2.6.08]

This rant is about people who completely fail at instant messaging.

If you are a slow typer:

You fail.

If you expect someone else (i.e. the person you're chatting with) to hold up the entire conversation:

You fail.

If you are the question-question-question type but say nothing about yourself:

You fail.

If you use MSN:

You fail.

If you all of a sudden start typing really fast only when someone has pissed you off:

You fail.

If you have ever called someone "dude" in chat:

You fail.

If you use the same shortened misspelled crap-ass grammar on chat as you do when text messaging:

You fail. (You do have a full keyboard at your disposal so you have no excuse.)

If you start a conversation with a message that's more than 15 words long:

You fail. (Don't make me scroll..)

If you have ever typed "lol" in chat:

You fail.

If you have ever typed "LOL" as if it means something totally different than "lol":

You fail.

If your screen name contains "xxx" anywhere in it:

You fail.

If your screen name begins and ends with an "x":

You fail.

If your screen name begins with a number:

You fail.

If your screen name begins and ends with a number:

You fail.

If your screen name has a dash, period or underscore in it:

You fail.

If your screen name is an e-mail address:

You fail. (STOP USING MSN..)

2 comments

  1. Jeff Finley says:
    02/09/2008 at 1:38 pm

    It’s funny my biz partner Bill, I remember he left for vacation one weekend and still had his Trillian connected. So I did him a favor and put up an away message “not here.” For him. That was months ago and he still has not changed it to say he was back. Every time I message him “auto response from Bill: “not here…” It’s annoying!

  2. Rich says:
    02/10/2008 at 12:05 pm

    Heh I guess that’s the last time you’ll help him out. :-)

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