So You Want to Chat with Shannon...
When I'm in the mood to chat online I usually go onto Yahoo Instant Messenger (despite my solemn oath never to login to YIM again a while back, I still do from time to time... sigh!). I still prefer GTalk, but logging into YIM pretty much guarantees I'll find someone to chat with; my friends list there is literally hundreds long whilst my GTalk friends list is a paltry 50-something (and my Hello list is even more pathetic!). :( I guess YIM is just the Instant Messenger of choice for fans of this site! Shrugs.
Anywho, lately I've been in sort of a chatting frenzy on YIM. Chalk it up to boredom, trying to impress Beth with my quasi-online "fame", or whatever, but I've been logging in there a lot the last couple of weeks. And do you know what I've learned?
Guys on YIM have not changed since I last swore it off!!!
Oh, there have been exceptions. I have made a few new friends there, otherwise I wouldn't keep logging in. But that being said, the vast majority of IM's I get are still frustrating, annoying, and downright lame! So, in an effort to cut down on these time-wasting IM's, I decided to write this blog post. Without further ado...
How to Chat with Shannon (a primer)
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1.) Do not ask, "Who are you again?" or any variation thereof.
If I'm on your contact list it's because you added me. Trust me. Asking who I am, or how you met me, etc. just annoys me. Besides, the link to my website is on my YIM profile. If in doubt, read that first. Mystery solved!
2.) Do not ask, "Is that pic in your profile really you?" or "Can I see a pic of you?" or any variation thereof.
If you've read this site for any length of time you already know: I no longer share real pictures of myself with people I meet online! Especially people I've only just met. There are about a billion reasons for this and I won't waste any time explaining them to you. Just know: there is no faster way to get on my ignore list than by pestering me for photos of myself!!!
3.) Do not accuse me of not really being female.
I admit, I've fallen for this line more than a few times. In the past I would either argue for a long time or seek to "prove" myself. But that was when I was a younger, more naive Shannon! The older, more experienced Shannon now knows:
:P In other words, I'm not going to fall for the line "Send me your pic or I'll think you're a guy" line ever again. Nor will I be baited into a long, pointless argument about my gender. If you try either, you go directly to my ignore list.
4.) Do not try and convert me to your religion.
If you're so religious, why were you on a website called "Forbidden Fantasies" anyway? :P
5.) Do not send me a picture of your penis.
I've written about this before but, sadly, this phenomenon persists. If I want to see your penis I will politely ask, but trust me, sending it to me out of nowhere will only get you onto my ignore list.
6.) Do not harass me.
By harass I mean the following: sending me a "BUZZ!!", sending me a flood of messages, talking to me IN ALL CAPS, etc. This usually starts to happen when I haven't replied to a message within 60 seconds, but look! If I'm still online, and haven't put you on my ignore list, I'll probably end up replying. Just because I do not reply right away doesn't mean I don't want to chat anymore!!! Sometimes it's just because I had to go to the bathroom, or answer a phone call, etc.
7.) Do not send me porn unsolicited!
If I'm in the mood to trade pix, URL's, etc. I will tell you. Just make sure to ask first, okay? Otherwise I might think you're a spam-bot and put you on my ignore list accidentally! :)
8.) Do treat me with respect!
Just because I run the site I run doesn't mean I want to be treated like some slutty whore. Saying things like "hey slut tell me how you'd suck my cock" is both a.) unoriginal and b.) insulting. Unless, of course, we're role-playing or cybering. But then I would have already given permission to be talked to in that way... I guess the bottom line is, just be nice unless I specifically mention otherwise, okay? :P
9.) Do feel free to bring up any subject at all to chat about!
I'm not always on YIM or GTalk because I'm horny and looking for porn, etc. Sometimes I just feel like meeting new people and chatting about whatever. Dark fantasies, politics, personal problems, etc., trust me! These are the things that end making a random IMer an online friend.
To sum up: Look, I've met and have become good friends with a lot of people through this site. And most of those friendships started through the magic of IMing. But for every good friend I've met and have had fun with, about a thousand people have so annoyed me that I ended up shunning chatting for weeks or even longer. So please, don't be one of those thousands! Be one of the few, the proud, the cool guys! If you do I bet you'll end up enjoying our friendship as much as me. Thanks!
-shannon-
Anywho, lately I've been in sort of a chatting frenzy on YIM. Chalk it up to boredom, trying to impress Beth with my quasi-online "fame", or whatever, but I've been logging in there a lot the last couple of weeks. And do you know what I've learned?
Guys on YIM have not changed since I last swore it off!!!
Oh, there have been exceptions. I have made a few new friends there, otherwise I wouldn't keep logging in. But that being said, the vast majority of IM's I get are still frustrating, annoying, and downright lame! So, in an effort to cut down on these time-wasting IM's, I decided to write this blog post. Without further ado...
How to Chat with Shannon (a primer)
***************************************
1.) Do not ask, "Who are you again?" or any variation thereof.
If I'm on your contact list it's because you added me. Trust me. Asking who I am, or how you met me, etc. just annoys me. Besides, the link to my website is on my YIM profile. If in doubt, read that first. Mystery solved!
2.) Do not ask, "Is that pic in your profile really you?" or "Can I see a pic of you?" or any variation thereof.
If you've read this site for any length of time you already know: I no longer share real pictures of myself with people I meet online! Especially people I've only just met. There are about a billion reasons for this and I won't waste any time explaining them to you. Just know: there is no faster way to get on my ignore list than by pestering me for photos of myself!!!
3.) Do not accuse me of not really being female.
I admit, I've fallen for this line more than a few times. In the past I would either argue for a long time or seek to "prove" myself. But that was when I was a younger, more naive Shannon! The older, more experienced Shannon now knows:
:P In other words, I'm not going to fall for the line "Send me your pic or I'll think you're a guy" line ever again. Nor will I be baited into a long, pointless argument about my gender. If you try either, you go directly to my ignore list.
4.) Do not try and convert me to your religion.
If you're so religious, why were you on a website called "Forbidden Fantasies" anyway? :P
5.) Do not send me a picture of your penis.
I've written about this before but, sadly, this phenomenon persists. If I want to see your penis I will politely ask, but trust me, sending it to me out of nowhere will only get you onto my ignore list.
6.) Do not harass me.
By harass I mean the following: sending me a "BUZZ!!", sending me a flood of messages, talking to me IN ALL CAPS, etc. This usually starts to happen when I haven't replied to a message within 60 seconds, but look! If I'm still online, and haven't put you on my ignore list, I'll probably end up replying. Just because I do not reply right away doesn't mean I don't want to chat anymore!!! Sometimes it's just because I had to go to the bathroom, or answer a phone call, etc.
7.) Do not send me porn unsolicited!
If I'm in the mood to trade pix, URL's, etc. I will tell you. Just make sure to ask first, okay? Otherwise I might think you're a spam-bot and put you on my ignore list accidentally! :)
8.) Do treat me with respect!
Just because I run the site I run doesn't mean I want to be treated like some slutty whore. Saying things like "hey slut tell me how you'd suck my cock" is both a.) unoriginal and b.) insulting. Unless, of course, we're role-playing or cybering. But then I would have already given permission to be talked to in that way... I guess the bottom line is, just be nice unless I specifically mention otherwise, okay? :P
9.) Do feel free to bring up any subject at all to chat about!
I'm not always on YIM or GTalk because I'm horny and looking for porn, etc. Sometimes I just feel like meeting new people and chatting about whatever. Dark fantasies, politics, personal problems, etc., trust me! These are the things that end making a random IMer an online friend.
To sum up: Look, I've met and have become good friends with a lot of people through this site. And most of those friendships started through the magic of IMing. But for every good friend I've met and have had fun with, about a thousand people have so annoyed me that I ended up shunning chatting for weeks or even longer. So please, don't be one of those thousands! Be one of the few, the proud, the cool guys! If you do I bet you'll end up enjoying our friendship as much as me. Thanks!
-shannon-
Labels: stuff about me
posted by Shannon at 2:46 PM
4 Comments:
Well put, Shannon. As a guy, it amazes me how many of my fellow men can be so ignorant.
If you're ever interested in chatting with a (hehe) usually sane guy, PM me and I will pass along my YIM to you (I occasionally post on the forum).
After you wrote that blog about people sending you penis pictures, I sent you a picture of a rooster (picture of a cock... hee hee)
Yes, at the time I thought you'd find this hysterically amusing... but possibly not! Sorry.
You forgot to mention men who IM with you should learn basic spelling/grammar/typing skills.
Nothing worse than:
"Wat u up 2?"
Maybe its just me and my computer, but the extra links and forums are no longer on your website. All I'm getting right now is your blog.
This reminds me of the time , working at Home Depot, eating lunch with about eight fellow toilers (5 or 6 happened to be black), and there was a news piece (Fox of course)about some high school that had canceled their prom because a bunch of kids (white) were boycotting it because a "mixed race couple" was going to be featured somehow. Without thinking about it I said out loud "sometimes white folks just embarrass the hell out of me!" (I'm white). After a dead silence of two beats the break room exploded...in hysterical, hearty laughter. Here, however, there is no one to hear the disgusted, embarrassed comment "Guys often just make me hate to tell people on line that I am male". This oft done act of sending (I'm sorry but there is no other word for it) a disgusting pic to a woman falls into the same seductive mannerisms as grabbing your bits and making some lewd, suggestive (but mindless and disgusting) comment, then getting mad when the object of such suave moves makes a face and walks on without a word.
Sorry, I got carried away, but the stupidity and insensitivity of the majority of guys is bad and getting worse and it just embarrasses the hell out of me.
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