RSSYou've Got... Away Messages
By Ed Oswald | Published October 20, 2005, 3:44 PM
Call it procrastination on steroids. AOL this week unveiled a new way to waste time on the Web that builds upon the obsession to view AIM profiles and away messages. The beta service, called AIM Buddy Info, allows users to leave comments on each other's away messages and IM profiles.
Comments can be viewed on the Buddy Info Web page, or by people on the user's buddy list through the AIM profile. According to an upcoming IM trends survey, more than half of all teens change their away message once a day, and a fifth change it every time they step away from the computer. AOL did not specify when it plans to take the service live.
AOL is the devil!!!!
It's like Internet for Dummies (the internet, not the book).
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|No.......
Google is the devil!
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|ROFL.
Have you seen this yet?
http://search.barnesandn...bn=0764558110&itm=1
Look at the nice big cover:
http://a1204.g.akamai.ne...ges/7240000/7249214.jpg
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|I always leave mine on away. So noone will im me. Defeats half the purpose, but then I can always pretend to be not there if someone DOES im me and I don't want to talk to them.
Othertimes I just im people when I want to talk to them.
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|How about if you don't want to talk to someone you take them off your list or you just don't sign on?
LOL........the crap people go through.....
*eyes rolling*
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|Yaaaay for away messages! lol... My personal favorite:
Carter: Where's Daniel?
O'Neill: Ernest is showing him a new toy.
Carter: Really, what?
O'Neill: Just some fancy light show that may be the key to the universe or something.
I can't wait for AOL to start spamming the ads when they see how profitable and annoying it is for spammers to do it.
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|Retarded.
People need to find something better to do with their time.
No wonder the population is getting so fat and can't sleep well at night.
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|No longer away messages. They are now e-mail-speed chat rooms. I recommend GMAIL over AIM. If anyone wants an invite to Gmail, send your address to [personally blocked for privacy]. =D Gotta spread the good word, methinks. And if you want a telephony/instant messenger, try Skype. I demand of it.
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|Some people are way too obsessed with AIM and Away Messages. My favorite is when people try to read too much into an away message. It's a frickin' away message! And also when people actually do write meaningful messages in them. Maybe I'm old-school, but I remember the early days when away messages were just that: a way to let people know where you are. Oh well.
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|You have to love when someone puts some dirt in an away message that they were trying to keep secret and it comes out at 2am when you are asleep and your friend wakes you up to tell you.
I remember the good ol days in the dorms with away messages and IM. Some of the ladies I knew used their away messages to profess their love or hatred for a specific individual, which was always a fun game.
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|It's really adverse and annoying, in some cases. It can get worrying just wondering what people are trying to say in freaking song lyrics.
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|Wow this is wonderful. I didn't have enough ways to stalk people already. I mean sure I can keep a vigilant watch on all my friends and all my friends' friends and all their friends through facebook. And sure I can see every picture of them and their family and friends by clicking on their links to their personal webshots site. And then if I need a bit more info I can hop on over to their personal journal on xanga and make sure I get all the details that their info, away message, facebook, and webshots left out. But you know sometimes I still feel like I'm missing some piece of the puzzle. That's where this new service will come in. Now I KNOW I can keep track of anyone, anytime, anywhere. Gone are the days of only semi-stalking someone. Now I can do it like a professional. Thank you AOL for constantly developing new ways for me to be a psychotic stalker.
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|Stalker. Keep up the good work, citizen!
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|hey there stalker.
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|This is awesome! I am so totally hooked on away message surfing I can't get any studying done
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|is this anything like yahoo's answering machine feature? one thing i wish the others would get and make sure to have that be secure, i had to email yahoo about a boot script, ok now
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|Eh, someone will abuse this. Some spammer will probably have a script written for them to spam everyone's AIM profile with pharmaceutical ads.
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|I forgot I had an AIM profile. I wonder what it says. I think the last time I looked at it was some time last year...
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|Haha, likewise. Then you wonder what the heck you were thinking when you wrote whatever you see.
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|Why do we need this again? AOL is just doing something weird :P
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