One can only imagine. I mean, it would be awful if you were IMing with some webwhore and mom at the same time and accidentally sent mom a message about giant cocks, y'know?
I once invited the wrong man to come visit me.
You know how Brad DeLong always says that the Bush administration is worse than you imagine, even taking into account that it's worse than you imagine? I'm starting to feel that way about b's sluttiness.
profffgrl, you know what's worse than that? 20 minutes of following silence from your mom.
you can be logged in and invisible. just click on the open eye above the buddy list. it will close and then you'll be invisible.
Oh, it was fine. I meant to invite the boyfriend and accidentally invited a blogreader who I was *just chatting with.* Don't get all excited. I just know how to tell a good story.
Or maybe I really am that slutty. I might need a new subtitle. "Worse than you imagine, like the Bush administration." Only somehow "Bush" and "slutty" in the same sentence just totally turns me off.
Profgrrrl, that would be bad. Michael, that would be even worse-- but not as bad as an enthusiastic response (or salacious details) from dear old Mom.
Fortunately, it was nothing like that.
bitchphd,
Hmmm. That sentence has exactly the opposite affect on me.
Also, capital B Bush, as opposed to lowercase b bush.
How about: Sluttier than you think, even taking into account she's sluttier than you think?
Personally, I don't think being invisible is so hot an idea. What if you're invisible and waiting for just one person to come online and they have the same great idea? Maybe something that lets you be selectively invisible would be best.
Questions of sluttiness aside, that "crap, the wrong window" problem is one of the reasons I use Trillian, which has a setting that causes new windows to appear minimized. Not only do I not type in the wrong window, but potentially compromising IMs received while at work don't pop onscreen while co-workers are watching.
Third-party apps generally are either better-behaved or more-configurable than AIM/YIM/MSN etc, and they all speak the relevant protocols. Whether you pick Trillian, Gaim, Ayttm or their various workalikes, you'll probably be happier.
Or just look up before you hit carriage return, two-fingers.
Matt,
Oh, yeah. How many of us has seen the laptop powerpoint presentation get interrupted by, ahem, a very 'interesting' IM?
It can be very funny.
bitchphd,
. Just checking to see if anyone reads my drek.
Thanks for the correction.
I've never seen a presentation interrupted by an IM! Shit, I must be in the wrong field.
(Though again, who doesn't think to turn their messenger off? I would be so paranoid about that happening I'd probably check it fifty times.)