Intercon ICQ homecoming

[juldea]

I come home from Intercon this year to these welcoming ICQ messages:

[09:59:32] 346492483: hi i saw your name on icq and thougth I would say hi, Gary 32 British in Australia

[09:01:33] 231601488: hey
[09:02:05] 231601488: cum on babe

[07:12:59] 264215507: do you like to eat my pussy?

[05:57:20] 238786661: Hi, I´m from germany and want to find new friends from the USA!Please answer!

[16:23:18] 331635816: Hi. I'm an older man in Oklahoma. May I please flirt with you?

Sheesh. I didn't get that many offers at Intercon this year! ;)

Comments

[sjo.livejournal.com]

You didn't get that many offers at Intercon? What is wrong with people?!?

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

This must be why I'm not on ICQ. What planet is that appropriate on?

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Man, when I was on ICQ, I didn't get anything like that.

[shadowravyn.livejournal.com]

Yes you did baby. Through my MIND!

Remember, I was wearing red ribbons on my wrist. You know what that means.

Awww yeah...

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they were just more subtle offers, and I missed them due to cluelessness?

Also, after a couple of years of dating londo and having it be known that we're one of those (gasp) monogamous couples, it's only the newbies who make the offers these days. ;)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I've been an ICQ user for around 10 years now, and I've never gotten five messages like that in the same year, much less weekend. I imagine there must've been some kind of coordinated cybersexin' hacking going on this weekend.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I've been on ICQ for about 10 years now, and have never gotten anything like this before, either.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well pfft, if you do it through your mind, I can't hear!! :P

Although, mmmm, red ribbons...

[ratbastrd.livejournal.com]

Monogamy does have a tebndency to cramp one's style in that regard, I've noticed. Not unhappiily at that...

[sjo.livejournal.com]

Or the terminally tactless...

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

I used to get crap like that when I was on ICQ -- about 3 or 4 years ago.

[baronbrian.livejournal.com]

That's actually why I stopped using ICQ. I was getting three or four of those a day. It got old.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

"Well, that's fine! I'm monogamous *too*, and my boyfriend doesn't mind!"*

(*actual quote** from Arisia)

(** not an actual quote. I made it up. But couldn't you see someone saying that?)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well, I will admit that I miss the offers at least. Just because I won't be all relationship-y with other people doesn't mean that I won't flirt, hug, snuggle, etc.

Of course, that leads to the problem of leading people on. Grar.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Wow. I guess they were just late to get ahold of my ID...

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Uh, that's totally something I would say, referring to flirting. I'm monogamous, but I still love to flirt.

[ratbastrd.livejournal.com]

Very much understood, yeah. As far as most people are concerned there really is no such thing as "innocent flirtation," apparently.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Which is so, so sad!