Blocking people on messenger

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Ever have someone blocked for so long that you're too embarrassed to unblock them, because you're pretty sure they've figured it out by now and will confront you and you won't have a good excuse?

I promised this guy we'd hang out over Thanksgiving break. Instead, I dodged it, now I've had him blocked for about 2 months.

He is annoying, but he's my friend and I suppose it's inevitable that I'll have to unblock him eventually. Whenever the time is right, I guess...

I don't really block people. I've had exes block me, but i never block them as imo it shows that they find it that hard to get over me, wheras i may be more callous and not give two s**ts. Not sure this makes sense but whatever. I'm sure people have blocked me over the years, as i don't talk and might be a waste of space on their list, but its never bothered me. I personally don't see the point in blocking folks. If its a bully, i might just block and delete. Otherwise i don't care to keep a blocked person on my list. My msn probably has wayyy too many people from school, none of which i talk to . . . . But i just keep them in case through maturity and growing up they one day want to know how i am . . . and maybe say we click good, and i might have a gf. This way of thinking is stupid too, but i just don't mind having a big list of people, i group everyone in terms of people i talk to, and people i don't. I never avidly talk on it and have meaningful conversations, unless with people from overseas to me with similiar issues. The friends i somewhat do things with, i just organise things with them on msn, but don't necessarily converse, it gets pretty generic after a while of just saying 'hey, how are you?' . . . 'whats doing?' . . . .'nothing much, yourself?' . . . . 'nothing.'

I found one of my online friends on my block list. No wonder he had never been on. I am sure I blocked him for a reason but I just don't remember why. Could it have been an accident or did we get into some fight over something silly?

I tend to storm off when people argue with me or don't believe me. They make me so mad.

I'm kind of being pestered by my first girlfriend............ she's not on my MSN contact list but she has me (got my email address off Facebook where I blocked her since), every time I block her on MSN she seems to call me, so I unblock her to get her to hang the phone up, then I block her after a while, and the cycle repeats, darn well annoys me but she is persistent, she's also quite sly in the fact she'll set to "appear offline" and IM me then as well if I don't block her, longest I had her blocked for was a few weeks before she called me to ask why I wasn't online

not many people IM me as much as they used to but that doesn't matter, I still have it as an alternative to IRC

I don't block people unless they turn out to be sexual harassers.

I do get blocked all the time though, no idea why

I hardly ever block people. When I do, it's usually after just one or two conversations - that's usually enough time to figure out if I feel like talking to the person on a regular basis or not.

But I do go "Invisible" a lot on Google. That way I can write email without interruption, but if someone comes on who I decide I really want to talk to for some reason (like if I haven't talked to them in a long time), I can go "Available" and IM them.

Too bad other usually people can't tell if I've blocked them or made myself invisible. So they think I've blocked them when I haven't.

Invisible mode is great, though. I think it saves other people's time because that way, they don't IM me and make me respond with, "can't talk / writing email / will get back to you" and then "no, i'm really trying to concentrate on this email, but i'll im you when i'm done", etc. That wastes both people's time.

So far I've never had to block anybody, I only add people I know (or like) on messengers anyway.

I never block people. That's rude, and I know it's rude, so I shouldn't do it. Besides, I can't keep a conversation going with just anyone. I can only seem to speak to really random people because they 1) always message me first 2) usually don't do useless small talk and 3) they're easier to talk to and are more interesting (i'd rather discuss and share links to news articles then talk about their job (unless it's intresting)).

And I get upset when someone else blocks me / deletes me. I have an MSN program that says if someone on my contact list doesn't have me (meaning they deleted me) so I always know and I try to figure out why they did it, but I can never seem to figure it out.

Yes.

It's very easy to tell if someone has blocked you nowdays now with all the MSN block checkers available.

I don't block many people.

I've never blocked anyone on Bebo, which is the only site like that I go on. Even my ex-best friend. She added me, which I found strange, so I accepted just to see if she'd been talking about me to our other friends (she had). Then we got in a Bebo comment argument, til I eventually told her to stuff it. Confrontation pwns blocking!

I can never tell if anyone has blocked me but I know I have been blocked because those people have told me and also I saw someone online but they didn't appear online on my other list. I have two AIM screen names.


I also suspect if people have blocked me because they never appear online. I don't bother adding screen names to my other AIM buddy list just to see if I am blocked or not because I don't care.


I seldom block people. I have very few on my block list. Most of them on AIM belong to one person because he stalked me. One of them I couldn't even remember who that person was but I must have had a good reason so I kept it on my block list.

It takes a lot for me to block you. You have to keep abusing me and IMing me for me to do it. You have to be a pig and keep IMing me after I keep saying no and telling you to go find another woman to harass.

I rarely have to block people, and it's usually would-be scammers.

I recently blocked someone like this. Well, not recently but a few weeks ago. It's the only reason I block someone as well. If I have an arguement with someone over MSN we can generally sort it out but if someone repeatedly asks me sexual questions after I've told them not to, I head straight to the block button. Other than that though, this person was nice so it's a shame he ruined it for himself.