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Superchicken · Feb 3, 2004, 10:34 PM

I've actually intentionally tried to keep from becoming friends with most of you partly because it was pretty obvious that most of you have no interest. But I recently thought about some of the people I've unwittingly added to my iChat list and the fact that several of them I at different times have enjoyed talking to, and others who are more casual. Demonhood is fun to talk to, as is Zimph although we don't talk much. Recently over the last two nights I've really enjoyed having certain conversations I had with two individuals who's names I won't give since it might ruin their reputations on here

Do you find you don't enjoy getting to know the occasional person on an IM from an MB or have you made nice with some other MacNNers?

MacGorilla · Feb 3, 2004, 10:37 PM

Umm, I don't sociallize with anyone on this board via IM, or any other way for that matter.

Superchicken · Feb 3, 2004, 10:42 PM

ANTI SOCIAL!

Apple Pro Underwear · Feb 3, 2004, 10:51 PM

phizilla and i get together to make fun of suckers like you

specifically i met milhaus and starman at MWNY02. Had lots of fun, i wasn't sure if i liked starman on these boards but as i expected when you finally meet someone they are never as you expect them to be.

and i prey on innocent 14 yr old girls and join satanic cults online too. yes, internet is the antichrist!

gorickey · Feb 3, 2004, 11:17 PM

Wait a minute here, you guys are real? Not bots?

Superchicken · Feb 3, 2004, 11:37 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Wait a minute here, you guys are real? Not bots?

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philzilla · Feb 4, 2004, 12:11 AM

yeah, like Undies said. i've got some good friends out of this place. we IM, we phone.

the internet is just a big network. it makes sense to use it; whether that be for business, pleasure, or just harmless stupidity of an evening.

if you just post then turn off, you're missing out. either that, or nobody wants to talk to you and you've finally gotten the message.

mrfrost · Feb 4, 2004, 12:24 AM

What phil said.

SomeToast · Feb 4, 2004, 12:41 AM

Is it because wait a minute here you guys are real not bots that you came to me?

Tulkas · Feb 4, 2004, 12:47 AM

Actually I PM'ed you SuperChicken once and you never got back to me. Odd considering we live in the same city.

Might see some of ya'll at MW 05. I'll be the guy running from security

TonyIC · Feb 4, 2004, 01:29 AM

Does stalking count?

Superchicken · Feb 4, 2004, 01:32 AM

Originally posted by Tulkas:
Actually I PM'ed you SuperChicken once and you never got back to me. Odd considering we live in the same city.

Might see some of ya'll at MW 05. I'll be the guy running from security

What? No way are you sure my in box wasn't full then... Dude you're from Winnipeg? We should totally get together for coffee some time! Where do you live in Winnipeg?

Cipher13 · Feb 4, 2004, 01:39 AM

Tulkas: now you've done it.

nobitacu · Feb 4, 2004, 02:11 AM

I've never talked to anyone on this board through iChat, but have using e-mail, but that's about it. Would like to start adding people to talk with though on iChat, since I need to start filling it up with people... I have 50+ names on my msn, and only 3 on iChat, it's sad... most of my friends all use msn, since I'm the only one with iChat, but i got 3 of my friends to buy a Mac soon, so I'll have them on iChat than.

Ming

Rev-O · Feb 4, 2004, 02:24 AM

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
I've actually intentionally tried to keep from becoming friends with most of you partly because it was pretty obvious that most of you have no interest.

Sorry, had to do it... it was an alley oop.

moonmonkey · Feb 4, 2004, 05:46 AM

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
What? We should totally get together for coffee some time!

Coffee, what fun.

dillerX · Feb 4, 2004, 06:17 AM

I used to be well behaved, then I started coming here.

Eriamjh · Feb 4, 2004, 06:53 AM

I don't know anyone.

John C. Smith · Feb 4, 2004, 07:43 AM

I see John B. Smith in real life every now and then. nice guy.

willed · Feb 4, 2004, 09:16 AM

Originally posted by moonmonkey:
Coffee, what fun.

Do you suggest they get together for whores and crack instead?

starman · Feb 4, 2004, 09:35 AM

I chat with Phil and Mindfad. In reality, I just use Phil for his large supply of Aria pics, and Mindfad I keep around in case he becomes famous someday

. Well, there's this Misanthrope guy but I won't admit to chatting with him

.

As APU said, I met him and milhous at MW a few years back. We had a good time (pics are around here somewhere). Someone's online persona isn't always what they are in RL.

Mike

Tulkas · Feb 4, 2004, 12:10 PM

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
What? No way are you sure my in box wasn't full then... Dude you're from Winnipeg? We should totally get together for coffee some time! Where do you live in Winnipeg?

Transcona. Yeah.

:scurries off to clean gun:

vcutag · Feb 4, 2004, 12:31 PM

Originally posted by willed:
Do you suggest they get together for whores and crack instead?

Hookers and eight-ball.

Ahem.

vcutag · Feb 4, 2004, 12:34 PM

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
I've actually intentionally tried to keep from becoming friends with most of you partly because it was pretty obvious that most of you have no interest. But I recently thought about some of the people I've unwittingly added to my iChat list and the fact that several of them I at different times have enjoyed talking to, and others who are more casual. Demonhood is fun to talk to, as is Zimph although we don't talk much. Recently over the last two nights I've really enjoyed having certain conversations I had with two individuals who's names I won't give since it might ruin their reputations on here

Do you find you don't enjoy getting to know the occasional person on an IM from an MB or have you made nice with some other MacNNers?

It is rather surprising the differences between someone's personality on a discussion board and their personality in real time. One of my best friends now is a guy I used to argue with all the time on this one history discussion board. He's since come down to Virginia from PEI, and I'm planning a trip up to Queen's to visit over the summer (when all of the ice melts and the polar bears retreat ;-).

Superchicken · Feb 4, 2004, 01:20 PM

Originally posted by Tulkas:
Transcona. Yeah.

:scurries off to clean gun:

You're seriously from transcona? Wow.. small world... how bout Coffee a Moxie's sometime?

brapper · Feb 4, 2004, 01:46 PM

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
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hahaha.....
i don't get it.

brapper · Feb 4, 2004, 01:49 PM

Originally posted by moonmonkey:
Coffee, what fun.

yeah they should probably just jump right into hardcore friendship and get loaded together eh?

Brien · Feb 4, 2004, 02:02 PM

Well, the only people fom here I really ever talk to are Tulkas. Sometimes DH, sometimes adam, rarely zimph, thats about it.

Dubya's Dealer · Feb 4, 2004, 02:07 PM

Me me in front of the Apple Store in Paris and I'll buy any of you a drink.

chris v · Feb 4, 2004, 02:14 PM

People I would consider real- life friends, despite having never met them is person would have to include Lerk, Philz, Maxelson, Boots, vmarks and MindFad to say the very least. Even Misanthrope can be a decent guy over iChat. And of course, WDLove is everybody's friend.

I wouldn't hesitate to get together with any of them, were we in the same town at the same time.

CV

philzilla · Feb 4, 2004, 02:25 PM

Originally posted by Dubya's Dealer:
Me me in front of the Apple Store in Paris and I'll buy any of you a drink.

you may be held to that!

typoon · Feb 4, 2004, 02:41 PM

I've spoken to a few people on iChat from the Forums. When iChat AV was in Beta I spoke to a few people. Most of my friends are on AIM just not many of them have a Mac. With the ones who do have a Mac I usually do Audio Chats with them and with 1 I do video chats with now that I have an iSight.

andi*pandi · Feb 4, 2004, 03:45 PM

you people on the interweb are a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, cloaked in shadow.

That said, it's nice to put a face to the screen name sometimes. I've met a couple of you, and lived, and would do it again.

MindFad · Feb 4, 2004, 04:07 PM

Originally posted by starman:
...and Mindfad I keep around in case he becomes famous someday .

Oh yeah? Well, I'll show you!

I'm down for saying hello to any of you turds in the new Apple Store in Aventura (Miami) Mall. But our relationship only goes as far as the Apple Store. You have to PayPal me for the rest of the day. And buy me a New Castle or Guinness, or both.

Dubya's Dealer · Feb 4, 2004, 04:12 PM

Hey, if there ever was an Apple store in Paris, I'm sure I'd be giddy enough to buy total strangers a drink...

nredman · Feb 4, 2004, 04:38 PM

no, i'm too cool for school

saddam hussein · Feb 4, 2004, 04:45 PM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
Tulkas: now you've done it.

Tulkas make sure you use protection.

Saddam H. · Feb 4, 2004, 07:15 PM

Hey what's with the double?

Will the real Saddam Hussein please stand up...

Stuphalina · Feb 4, 2004, 08:05 PM

Nope, but I'm not against it.

Krusty · Feb 4, 2004, 08:25 PM

None in real life .. AIM'd with one or two from time to time. Guess its just like with the rest of the general population ... if chance or circumstance arose. Otherwise, it all just seems like some sort of Artificial Intelligence game I come home and play from time to time.

wolfen · Feb 4, 2004, 08:29 PM

2 Geek 4 U

Face Ache · 09:16 PM

Originally posted by Stuphalina:
Nope, but I'm not against it.

There's a line there...

I've got 14 people from here on my iChat list.

I speak to three of them.

edit: I had a video iChat with a MacNNer last week. That was cool.

Demonhood · Feb 4, 2004, 09:04 PM

i have met 10 macnners in "real life" (eaten lunch with most of them).
i have 47 macnners on my AIM list (only a few are people i've banned).
i have spoken to 1 macnner on the phone (on Sep. 11 or 12, 2001 even).
i have pictures of macnners on my website (a picture of the bunch of them is the most hit image in my gallery).
i have been engaged in conversation by a random attendee at Macworld only to find out that he reads macnn, and recognizes my name.

i have a problem, and my name is Demonhood.

ghost_flash · Feb 4, 2004, 09:30 PM

Originally posted by Face Ache:
There's a line there...

I've got 14 people from here on my iChat list.

I speak to three of them.

edit: I had a video iChat with a MacNNer last week. That was cool.

In regard to the video chat, do you actually
look like that?

As for the real question in this thread,
and my answer.

Ewwwwww, why would I want to do that?
and ruin a perfectly good anynimity?
I already got some hick wanting to kick
my arse...

Face Ache · Feb 4, 2004, 09:35 PM

Originally posted by ghost_flash:
In regard to the video chat, do you actually
look like that?

I'm taller in real life.

ghost_flash · Feb 4, 2004, 09:35 PM

Originally posted by Face Ache:
I'm taller in real life.

I hope so, jeez. I hate looking down on
you all the time.

Dex13 · Feb 4, 2004, 10:55 PM

I attend school w/ Sean Yepez. ( We have one class together)

I think I have Solidage and Jake Fowler on my ichat list.

MacGorilla · Feb 4, 2004, 11:02 PM

Originally posted by Face Ache:
I'm taller in real life.

I'm shorter

sniffer · 03:03 AM

I have a few great internet friends that I socialize directly with but only online (IM, IRC etc). None of them are from here though.

Yeah, and my name is sniffer.

disectamac · Feb 6, 2004, 02:06 PM

SC: So you guys ever meet anyone here at Macnn?
Tulk: I sent you a message once because we live in the same city but you never replied
SC: Really you're from winnepeg?
Tulk: Truscona yeah !
SC: Small world ! where do you live ?
Tulk: I live on abc street what about you?
SC: I live on abc street too holy cow
Tulk: I'm the blue house on the left
SC: So am I dude! I'm the bedroom downstairs by the kitchen
Tulk: Me too ! turn around man its me!
SC: woah we're roomates !