Comments on: My First Online Chat

By: Citizen of the Month » Mister Valentine’s Day

Citizen of the Month » Mister Valentine’s Day — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:56:07 +0000

[...] Although I recently said I hate IM, I think it also has potential for good, so today I registered for the Yahoo IM account mister_valentinesday. It will only be open for one day, Valentine’s Day. On that day, any lovelorn person can come by and get an “I love you” from a REAL LIVE PERSON, sort of the equivalent of “V-day customer service,” or a “suicide hotline for depressed single people on February 14th.” [...]

By: Grace

Grace — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:05:50 +0000

I taught my husband how to IM while he was in the study on the desktop and I was in the bedroom with the laptop. In his very first time using IM, he figured out its number one use! I won’t tell you whether he was successful.

By: littlepurplecow

littlepurplecow — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:42:13 +0000

Great story. I luv IM. But I don’t text.

By: Booda Baby

Booda Baby — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:25:05 +0000

There are 53 (FIFTY THREE!!) comments ahead of mine on your First Online Chat post, which sort of damps enthusiasm for adding one more, but since the whole point is to tell you how wonderful you are, 54 comments probably isn’t enough, is it?

Everyone complains about the cute meet, until it happens in real life. I feel a little sorry for Web 2.0 nuts, though – now that there are a million ways to connect and a trillion people doing the connecting, the connections are suffering.

I made that up. Anecdotal, at best. First stages of schadenfreude.

By: V-Grrrl

V-Grrrl — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:07:54 +0000

I still get excited about snail mail, even in the digital age. And E is the only one with easy access to our PO box so I shake him down for packages, letters, and magazines daily.

And the holiday card I sent to you–I watercolored it by hand and made it myself. Go ahead, call me Martha. And consider yourself special–I sent factory-made cards to nearly everyone else!

Your Belgian Pen Pal,

Miss V

By: ally

ally — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:20:39 +0000

i grew up using IM’s. i have mad typing skills (with typos). i have IMs to thank for that and the run-on sentences and incorrect tense usage, etc.

By: Mo

Mo — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:31:43 +0000

Am I the only person here that likes IM? Ah well. I’ll let you know, Neil, if anything ever happens to my hubby. You’ll be next up, apparently. The Gods of fate has spoken!

By: girlanddog

girlanddog — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:20:59 +0000

I can’t believe people would get upset about your therapist posts…They were so funny!
I plugged in my ex-husband’s most probable responses into this psychiatry test you found. Quite interesting results! Apparently, he’s a Paranoid Borderline Antisocial Histrionic.

Where was this test when I needed it in court? Thanks for sharing!!

By: Heather B.

Heather B. — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:43:04 +0000

I’m your blog crush of the day???

(she says some 19 hours later)

thank you!

By: Two Roads

Two Roads — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:43:06 +0000

“So, maybe my fear of IM has something to do with the fact that I end up marrying the women I chat with.”

umm, how many women would that be?????