Public Service Announcement
Feb. 2nd, 2009 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
candylandApologies for spamming your f-lists, but this has been going on since I installed the program, and I'm getting sick of it. It's gone from being a couple of isolated, forgettable incidents to being outright ridiculous.
I've been getting a LOT of weird IMs on Skype. I mean a LOT. And it's gotten to the point where I've actually gone in and changed my settings. I can't be messaged on there unless you're on my buddy list. I have NEVER done that with an IM service before. But when I ask a person who they are (figuring that they're from ff-dot-net or LJ or something), and the response I get is "somebody" before they start asking personal questions, I'm not going to continue the conversation.
And adding someone who then immediately tries to call me twice times without any other conversation or identifying comments...yeah. And it's only on Skype, for some reason. Not on MSN or AIM...and well, not on Yahoo, but I'm almost never on Yahoo anyway.
And I've decided that I'm done with it. So I'm saying this now, especially for Skype--identify yourself, please. Or I'm not going to talk to you. There's a place to type a message when you add someone. Because I'm getting weirded out by the seemingly random people adding me and asking questions without giving me any sort of name or where they found me, and outright refusing to answer when I ask directly.
Yes, I'm probably overreacting. But I've gotten more of these IMs in the couple of months I've been on Skype then in all the time I've been on all my other messengers combined.
I've been getting a LOT of weird IMs on Skype. I mean a LOT. And it's gotten to the point where I've actually gone in and changed my settings. I can't be messaged on there unless you're on my buddy list. I have NEVER done that with an IM service before. But when I ask a person who they are (figuring that they're from ff-dot-net or LJ or something), and the response I get is "somebody" before they start asking personal questions, I'm not going to continue the conversation.
And adding someone who then immediately tries to call me twice times without any other conversation or identifying comments...yeah. And it's only on Skype, for some reason. Not on MSN or AIM...and well, not on Yahoo, but I'm almost never on Yahoo anyway.
And I've decided that I'm done with it. So I'm saying this now, especially for Skype--identify yourself, please. Or I'm not going to talk to you. There's a place to type a message when you add someone. Because I'm getting weirded out by the seemingly random people adding me and asking questions without giving me any sort of name or where they found me, and outright refusing to answer when I ask directly.
Yes, I'm probably overreacting. But I've gotten more of these IMs in the couple of months I've been on Skype then in all the time I've been on all my other messengers combined.