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I blocked someone who likes to constantly send Nudges, for no other reason than to be annoying.

I've blocked others for being general asshats.

Oh, and if anyone has MSN and wants to chat, TG me. I'm bored.

I can't get into the whole IM thing, so I guess that's a dodged bullet...

I have, and I'm wondering now because of something I just read in a thread...

Basically, this person is, in my eyes, a rather egocentric attention seeker. I'm usually quite good as agony aunt, the type of person who gets calls at 3am from a friend who just had her BF break up with her and needs to talk right now. I've done a lot of work with youth groups in the past, so I know what a rollercoaster puberty can be.
Basically, at some point I had the feeling I could no longer offer any sort of advice to the person in question. She would listen to what I said, then turn around and return straight to her problem. I think in a way that problem is her security blanket. As long as she has it, she doesn't need to face the world.
She might grow out of it, or she might cling to it forever, I don't know. But I felt I couldn't help any more now, and one day blocked her on MSN.

Not the most honest thing to do... but I don't want to hurt her or make her feel even worse by saying that I can't help any more and would she please not contact me any more. But it still makes me feel bad...

So, any stories behind your own blocked contacts?

I've blocked a couple of people just because they were idiots. I just thought what the hell is wrong with you people, why must you try to send me a virus or constantly nudge me?

Ever bloacked someone on MSN cause they were really getting on your nerves?my blocked list had passed the 100's 7 years ago, now I dont even want to look at that monster list, because I cant even remember who are most of them or why did I lock them. :headbang:

Its like a mountain of paperwork, and I dont want to touch it.
BTW, People from NSG emailing an IM invite should type [NSG] at the top, otherwise it would most likely be ignored.. unfortunately.

I do it all the time. ^^ From girls who can't ever seem to find that relationship that last more than a week to guys who just can understand why their obnoxious, sexist, irritating behavior just can't land them a girl to the occasional "OMG if you hang-up now I'm going to cut my wrists!"

I just got tired of hearing people bitch about nothing. Generally when they start, if I'm in a bad mood, especially the bi-polar wanna be emos, I tell them straight off to find someone else who cares, because I'm not their mother, nanny or therapist and I just don't give a damn.

The people who bitch about their relationship woes generally get blocked, because they don't really want help, they just want to whine.

Of course, its a different situation if it's a close friend who has genuine problems and they occassionally need to unload some of their stress. I can deal with that gladly, because I do it too. But if it's a constant thing with no effort put forward to fix the problem, then I have no qualms about blocking them.

Oh, and if anyone has MSN and wants to chat, TG me. I'm bored.

Can't. I blocked you.

Can't. I blocked you.

*cries*

I block tons of people. Some from NSG even! :eek:


Oh, and if anyone has MSN and wants to chat, TG me. I'm bored.
Only if you have a webcam and promise to get naked :p

Jk Jk

my blocked list had passed the 100,s 7 years ago, now I dont even want to look at that monster list, because I cant even remember who are most of them or why did I lock them. :headbang:

Its like a mountain of paperwork, and I dont want to touch it.
People from NSG emailing an IM invite should type [NSG] at the top, otherwise it would most likely be ignored.. unfortunately.

I know what you mean... But I don't want to unblock someone just cause I can't remember who they were. Chances are, they might remember me...

I know what you mean... But I don't want to unblock someone just cause I can't remember who they were. Chances are, they might remember me...wait, was that you? the CabraW that sent me black latex pics last week? :D

first show me the booty :D

The treasure or the...other kind? :p

Only if you have a webcam and promise to get naked :p

Jk Jk

Only if you pay me. ;)

(Joking.)

I can't get into the whole IM thing, so I guess that's a dodged bullet...

Ditto, but I'm pretty good at ignoring things I don't want to respond to anyway.

The timewarp in this thread is terrible. :confused:

Oh, and if anyone has MSN and wants to chat, TG me. I'm bored.first show me the booty :D

wait, was that you? the CabraW that sent me black latex pics last week? :D

*lol

Dream on!

I only did it once, and it was a hell of a relief...

...And then I did something really stupid, but funny. The contact was not only blocked, but soon became completely removed. :p

I have, and I'm wondering now because of something I just read in a thread...

Basically, this person is, in my eyes, a rather egocentric attention seeker. I'm usually quite good as agony aunt, the type of person who gets calls at 3am from a friend who just had her BF break up with her and needs to talk right now. I've done a lot of work with youth groups in the past, so I know what a rollercoaster puberty can be.
Basically, at some point I had the feeling I could no longer offer any sort of advice to the person in question. She would listen to what I said, then turn around and return straight to her problem. I think in a way that problem is her security blanket. As long as she has it, she doesn't need to face the world.
She might grow out of it, or she might cling to it forever, I don't know. But I felt I couldn't help any more now, and one day blocked her on MSN.

Not the most honest thing to do... but I don't want to hurt her or make her feel even worse by saying that I can't help any more and would she please not contact me any more. But it still makes me feel bad...

So, any stories behind your own blocked contacts?

I only IM'd you one day! Just take me off your buddy list if you hate me so much! :mad:





:p

I had to block someone once, I won't name names because they used to post here......also I blocked another person who used to/might still be post(ing) here because they would IM me too much and stuff.

rather egocentric attention seeker

i'am so not egocentric attention seeker :mad: :p

no i not block someone as i'am not much on it when i have MSN,which i don't have right now

I only IM'd you one day! Just take me off your buddy list if you hate me so much! :mad:

You're still on it! I'm planning to drown you in nudges one day when you least suspe... damn, I shouldn't have said that, should I?

:p

I had to block someone once, I won't name names because they used to post here......also I blocked another person who used to/might still be post(ing) here because they would IM me too much and stuff.

Same here, my case posts here as well...

Thanks, CW, for this thread. It confirms me in my anti-IM stance. :)

Yeah one time, but then he got on under a different screen name and confronted me about blocking him. I felt like a dick at first but now its kind of funny.

Thanks, CW, for this thread. It confirms me in my anti-IM stance. :)

Hehe... I still find IM handy. I met my BF online, and without IM we wouldn't have gone far, but as it is we're living together now. Which is why I'm not using IM so much any more. ;)

Only one person - and that was because they were stange, added me for no reason and I didn't like them :)

Incidently, my IM details are on my profile...

I don't use MSN messenger at all. So basically everyone is blocked. I don't like people interrupting me at any time. Probably the same reason I don't use a Nextel even though I have one sitting in my office. I also don't give out my home phone and keep my cell phone on vibrate. I once hid my wife's phone so she couldn't take it on a vacation and have all her damn friends call her. For god sakes people why do you have to call someone while they are vacationing in Mexico? I have answered her phone on vacation knowing it was a friend of hers. I ask them right away "What's wrong did something terrible happen?". They then say no just seeing how things were going. I say fine she will let you know when we get back.

someone is on my friend's list on MSN and I don't know who they are so I IM'd them and was like "it's Smunkee" and they were like "what the hell is a Smunkee?" and they were serious.

I should block them.

Yeah I've blocked mounds of people.

However, I am bored and available on MSN, so anyone can hit me up. ;)

I don't use MSN messenger at all. So basically everyone is blocked. I don't like people interrupting me at any time. Probably the same reason I don't use a Nextel even though I have one sitting in my office. I also don't give out my home phone and keep my cell phone on vibrate. I once hid my wife's phone so she couldn't take it on a vacation and have all her damn friends call her. For god sakes people why do you have to call someone while they are vacationing in Mexico? I have answered her phone on vacation knowing it was a friend of hers. I ask them right away "What's wrong did something terrible happen?". They then say no just seeing how things were going. I say fine she will let you know when we get back.

my husband often answers my phone on weekends "what hospital are you in?" and they say "none, we're fine" and he hangs up. ;) I guess he thinks I should take Saturday off.

Yeah I've blocked mounds of people.

However, I am bored and available on MSN, so anyone can hit me up. ;)

That goes for me, too. TG me, people. :p

Only one person - and that was because they were stange, added me for no reason and I didn't like them :)

I had my reasons.

I usually block everyone who I don't really intend to have conversations with, its nice when nobody knows your a complete nerd :p

also I'm so telegramming everyone in this thread for their MSN...tomorrow..maybe

I've blocked people for being too dumb to have an intellectual conversation with, I've blocked people for annoying me, I've blocked people for being rude to me, hell, I've even blocked people for putting up with me being a prick to long without complaint. Sometimes I'm a jerk. :(

Yeah, a few people. Usually those who start spamconvos like Ruffy and TMH.

Only one person - and that was because they were stange, added me for no reason and I didn't like them :)

Incidently, my IM details are on my profile...I thought your ISP didn't allow you to NSG?

So, any stories behind your own blocked contacts?
I have about 30 something blocked addresses. I'm pretty sure some Chinese spam-bots found my hotmail address while I still had it listed under my NationStates profile and kept sending me IMs from Chinese girls asking me whether I wanted to join their circle of friends (although they'd only do it in Chinese).

I don't use IM at all 'cause I'm addicted to my computer as it is, and if I had IM, I would never get off it.
(Case in point: It's past 3:30 a.m. my time. I really ought to go to bed.)

I'm rather radical in my IM approach; if I don't feel like I want to talk to them anymore and am not close enough to them to warrant an explanation, I'll block them. Seeing how I'm not into IMing with random people I pick up left and right on the internet, I think I've only needed to block two people so far.

It's the same with NSG or other message boards; there usually is an ignore function and I'll use it as soon as it becomes clear that someone's posts will most probably not have any benefit whatsoever to me. I see no reason to allow myself to be molested just because the technology would allow me to.

This means that I'm also one of those people who'll stay 'invisible' a lot on IMs, or decide to not answer a message every once in a while when I don't feel like it, or who turns off her mobile phone or decides not to answer it when currently not in a I'm-reachable mood, and I don't expect no different from other people whom I might feel like contacting. The only choice I do not respect is when people decide to let themselves be reached via various contacting means and then complain about how they are reachable at all those times they'd rather be left alone. I have yet to encounter any means of communication that does not have on 'off' button, or that'll have some device attached to it that'll hunt you down with a knife if you decide to leave it on for some people to contact you, but ignore other calls/messages/...

A friend of mine would always let the answering machine come in with her (landline) phone and listen to the caller's introduction before she decided whether or not to pick up the phone, and I applaud that practice. Just having a communication device does not equal any pressure to make yourself reachable through it.

Once, because they were a nutcase. Usually I'm the annoying blockee though, which is fair enough, I mean I incessantly ask people how they're going all the time :P

MS...N? :confused:

No, I don't use such new-fangled contraptions, I stick with the trusty semaphore :)


Though hypothetically, I would have blocked an ex for a while before deleting the contact...

MS...N? :confused:

Technically it's Windows Live Messenger now, but 99% of people don't care, just like a lot of people don't care that Atari (more Nintendo really) hasn't been synonymous with gaming for ages.

Possibly...I don't really remember. There was a time when I was always signed in when I was at my computer. Now I've not used it in about eight months. I think I have one person blocked, mainly because I feel that if they're worth blocking, they're worth deleting.

I don't think I've ever blocked someone on MSN. I blocked a stalker girl(?) on AIM once, but that was it.

I don't think I've ever blocked someone on MSN. I blocked a stalker girl(?) on AIM once, but that was it.

Stalker? Do tell...

Stalker? Do tell...

It's not that exciting of a story. Apparently a 14 year old girl in a neighboring state read my blog and decided that I was a great guy that she wanted to get to know better and meet for sex. I was stupid enough to put my AIM SN up on the blog, so she knew how to contact me. And contact me she did, repeatedly.

It's the internet, so I have no way of knowing if it was actually a girl or a 14 year old, but c'est la vie.

Yeah, a few people. Usually those who start spamconvos like Ruffy and TMH.

Holy shit.

Since when did I have you on MSN?

I blocked a guy once for half an hour cos he was being really rude. He ended up just emailing me.

I'm too nice to block people generally, even though I'm tempted when they talk liiiik thisssssss!!!!!!!!!!!! and have freaky pictures for and o or an s. It also helps that I know all my contacts in rl, so any too obvious blocks result in being argued at.

Holy shit.

Since when did I have you on MSN?

Since when do you start spam convos?

Since when do you start spam convos?

I think he meant party convos.

And if he blocked Ruffy for that, he's just got no personality, I'm afraid.