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January 3, 2002 at 12:23 am #14328GandalfMember
My wife sent me this cartoon from the New Yorker and I had to laugh. It depicts two dogs, one sitting in front of a computer and explaining to the other, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
It does raise a humorous reminder of a more serious reality: that whether in a chat room or in an instant message, people aren’t always who they appear to be. Caveat emptor!
Gandalf
=== Absolute power corrupts absolutely ===
January 3, 2002 at 8:37 am #102835rustedtightMemberOMG, this is unbelievable.
You saying then that I’ve not been chatting with God, Superman, Osama,and ‘She who must be obeyed’ ??
NO NO no, you lie.
Rusted.
Edited by – rustedtight on 01/03/2002 02:39:04
January 3, 2002 at 8:52 am #102834Jeff HesterKeymasterOh, you chatted with Osama too?
I actually saw someone on Odigo once using Osama bin Laden as their nickname. And if I saw God using a particular IM, should I take that as a sign to abandon all others?
Jeff Hester
BigBlueBall.comJune 8, 2002 at 3:58 pm #102840DaveMemberQuote:quote:
OMG, this is unbelievable.You saying then that I’ve not been chatting with God, Superman, Osama,and ‘She who must be obeyed’ ??
NO NO no, you lie.
Rusted.
Edited by – rustedtight on 01/03/2002 02:39:04
I need to start logging my chats…I don’t remember you chatting with me…
June 9, 2002 at 10:34 am #102839AnnaParticipantQuote:quote:
OMG, this is unbelievable.You saying then that I’ve not been chatting with God, Superman, Osama,and ‘She who must be obeyed’ ??
NO NO no, you lie.
Rusted.
Edited by – rustedtight on 01/03/2002 02:39:04
Omigosh! What a co-ink-a-dink!! I spoke… well now it’s I thought I spoke with all of them too! (osama told me where he is hiding….you know – “THE” cave ….he plugged his comp into a rock, and god told me about the time joseph and mary……nevermind.) Ugh. Thanks a lot Gandalf, Now that I find out that really wasn’t god…. then who was it that listened to me confess my sins?
Windaphoner
Anna Wojtowicz
Vous êtes seulement jaloux parce que les écureuils sur les étiquettes de pot de beurre d’arachide parlent avec moi…June 9, 2002 at 4:30 pm #102841Zlink123MemberSo that’s what my dog, I mean brother, ( I get them confused a lot) has been doing in the computer room lately. and has anyone talked to Emit Smith lately? lol *as I think of the TV ad*
-Zlink123
Dog mans best friend??? I think
not…Computer, mans best friend.June 10, 2002 at 12:01 am #102838AnnaParticipantmeh.
I’ve sure enough had my share of pedophiles… stalkers… (my friend is currently being stalked – so she asked me; being that confident and verbally aggressive [when needed] person I am , to scare him off… sure enough… I had a “chat” with him… and he’s backed off ever since… ) and just plain sick/weird people…
I haven’t been in a chat room (besides the BBB one – which btw is empty 24/7 people..) in probably gnarl- … nearly a year. If I ever were to go into a chat room; it’d probbaly be a Yahoo one.. they have a lot mor “sane” and mature rooms.. but some are still pathetic like “THE BRITNEY SPEARS FAN ROOM” where as Britney Spears is not even mentioned and the topic of discussion is “cybersex” ( perverts! ).
I have 2 guidlines for myself to keeping those sickos out there away from me:
1. Going into mature, clean chat rooms with mature, clean young adults. (Never going into those chat room with titles that make you contimplate)
2. If someone spontaineously adds me to their IMer (whatever it may be) and I have no clue who they are.. I usually don’t accept their request. I’ll add them to my list but prevent them from seeing my online status. (I may unblock them to actually ask who they are; obvoiusly If i know them they stay unblocked… but if I don’t.. I don’t want to get to “know” them at all.. ) well some exceptions.. people from BBB and a couple others… but…
yeah..
I haven’t encountered any sickos in a long while.. Well there’s one of our BBB members named-…. Oh nevermind. 🙂
Windaphoner
Anna Wojtowicz
Vous êtes seulement jaloux parce que les écureuils sur les étiquettes de pot de beurre d’arachide parlent avec moi…June 10, 2002 at 2:28 pm #102836rhiannonMemberQuote:quote:Well there’s one of our BBB members named-…. Oh nevermind.Wash your mouth out girl, that is just a disgusting rumor….. OK so I originally started it but its now out of hand.
I am a well respected member of our community…..
Welllll is it OK if I tell you who to ask about me?
Back-off OK? it’s not true.rhiannon
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Live sexJune 10, 2002 at 2:51 pm #102837AnnaParticipantbut-but-but… what about that one time that you…….*sigh* fine… you win. you typed more letters than me…
Windaphoner
Anna Wojtowicz
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