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ralfMemberpatndoris;241497 wrote:If all you want to do is find an invisible detector that works for AIM, I’m afraid I wouldn’t suggest one even if I knew one that worked. It’s an invasion of privacy. People go invisible for a reason and that should be respected.
NO THEY SHOULD NOT BE RESPECTED.
How can you say such a thing?
From my experience people who use invisible:-
1) Come into online mode to chat to you about their stuff then shut you out when you want to chat about your stuff.
2) Be selective about who they chat to… fine you may say but by benignly respecting their invisible staus you are accepting the friendship of a buddy living a lie to you.
3) However, most importantly, they use Invisible to spy on others… yes, it is THEY who are the real invaders of your privacy.
I believe the concept of appearing online when offline as well as invisible online totally undermines the concept chat buddies and when one “buddy” objected to me breaking through his invisible barrier I told him quite bluntly that he should either respect me as a friend or delete me from my list instead of behaving so dishonestly to me. He told me the same thing that he had the right to have his invisibility respect and I told him in no uncertain terms that if that applied to him it should also apply to me which it was not by virtue of his effectively spying on my status secretly and that he was behaving like a creepy stalker..
Let me put something to you patndoris. If you were in your home openly visible from your windows and you noticed by chance someone furtively sitting in a car spying on your movements, if you went outside and introduced yourself to that person you would be invading their privacy but they would not be invading yours.
If we must keep this anachronistic option of Invisible then it should be a reciprocal option whereby if you put somebody or everybody in Invisible your status becomes invisible to them so they cannot see you.
That would cut out the stalkers, the creeps, the liars and the true invaders of privacy.
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