How can I distance myself away from someone?

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A friend of a friend befriended me lately.
Initially, they seemed extremely intelligent and I was very impressed, looking forward to more. However, they started IM-ing me and they didn't take too long to come across as extremely odd (in a bad sense), horribly promiscuous and hateful toward the proletariat.
Despite this, they are friendly to me, sending me several IMs for every one of mine and branching off the conversation to yet another thing whenever I stop it with some uninterested reply or just plain ignore it. I'm finding them tiresome, distressing and inane, so what can I do to remove them from my life in the most harmless way possible?

stop responding to them , what is a proletariat?

A member of the working classes.

Do what I do, always sign on in "invisible mode", or "appear offline", or whatever yours has. Then you're only "there" if you want to be, and nobody knows any better.
Then if you don't feel like talking, just ignore them.

I suppose I'll block them for now. Just don't want to miss opportunities to talk to the better of my friends. Is it really best though to just ignore everything they type?

Yes if you start responding to them again then you are just adding fuel to the fire and they will keep pestering you. If you want them to leave you alone you must cease all communications with them.

And not say a word? Not a pennythrottle? Not a winkleberry of a syllable?

Aalto, to distance yourself from this person you can go one of two ways. If you feel that this person has been particularly offensive and you wish to return the offence, tell them what you REALLY think and don't sugar the pill then block them effectively forever. However, if you wish to just ignore the individual just block them and if you should see them face to face tell them you're computer crashed and you had to reinstall your talk thing and lost all of your contacts.

Voila.

HRH Swan

A little off-topic, but related: I fear someone I recently met is trying to avoid me. How can I know whether he's actually doing it? I find him a fascinating person and I really want to keep his friendship, but he's been avoiding contact with me lately. I fear I may have done something that bothered or upset him. What can I do?

You can still message people and recieve messages when you're in those modes. They just won't know you're on unless you tell them.
And the people you don't want to talk to, you just "weren't on."