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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: Petrie. on July 17, 2006, 04:13:51 PM

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: Petrie. on July 17, 2006, 04:13:51 PM

As of tonight, I will no longer be actively using instant messaging as it has become very distracting (and addicting) and I'm not getting done what I need to when I want to, if that makes much sense to you guys. I will always answer emails so you can pop one off to me and expect a reply within a day.  It's the daily instant messaging that has just taken over my life...and its time I took it back.  :yes  :yes

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: action9000 on July 17, 2006, 04:19:10 PM

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It's the daily instant messaging that has just taken over my life...and its time I took it back.   

LOL I've been there!  I'll still be on MSN, but I do have a lot of work to catch up on, so I may be less talkative, both on MSN and on the GoF in the near future.

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: Petrie. on July 17, 2006, 04:39:16 PM

Just to clarify, I won't stop coming here or going to boards.  The IM is what keeps me online longer than I want to be.

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: Malte279 on July 17, 2006, 04:46:09 PM

Kind of funny as years ago it was you who brought me to MSN as you prefered it from email writing.

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: Petrie. on July 17, 2006, 09:00:13 PM

I fail to see what's funny.  A lot changes in five years Malte, and I didn't start even using IM until about two years ago....that's not very long ago in the scheme of things, and at this point in my life 2 + hours of IM a day is not going to work well.  This is the best solution I could come up with to help snap an internet addiction that came about during the early part of this summer (largely thanks to no job for a while).

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: DarkHououmon on July 18, 2006, 02:32:20 AM

Hmm..I could be wrong, but I wonder if Malte meant funny as in strange, not funny as in humorous.

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: Malte279 on July 18, 2006, 01:42:53 PM

In between those two "funnies" I would say.

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: Petrie. on July 18, 2006, 03:11:20 PM

PM sent out to all my usual IM contacts here...please respond. ;)

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: action9000 on July 18, 2006, 03:47:52 PM

Responded. B)

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: Malte279 on July 18, 2006, 04:44:09 PM

So did I.

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: Littlefoot Fan on July 18, 2006, 04:58:24 PM

Same :P:

Title: No more instant messaging for me.
Post by: Threehorn on July 18, 2006, 06:46:32 PM

At the moment I haven't even been on a instant messenger that much I have no time to even start up e-messenger before the 15 minute limit is up if there people waiting to use it. And i just check emails at the moment since I profer to do other things at the moment plus when I am in the UK when I get back it would be on but I wouldn't speak to many people on it. Jason is the one I mostly speak to online on msn messenger.