My Contacts

[davidn]

I've just realized how out of date my contacts list is. Since moving around from AIM to MSN four years ago then getting Trillian to unify all my contact lists into one gelatinous heap, I've never really got around to cleaning it out. As a result I currently have three hundred and thirty-one names across various groups on my list, and very little idea who most of them are meant to be.

Fortunately I have tried to organize people by what community I know them from over time, so the people listed in the University/CS, Daily Click and ZZT groups are easy enough to guess (if their username happens to match the one I know them normally by - I didn't have Trillian for much of this time and so didn't have the facility to battle people's constantly changing usernames). The main problem lies in two groups - "MSN" (61 entries) and "Buddies" (108 entries), virtually none of which mean anything to me.

Recently I've noticed people I used to know coming online again with their old accounts - this is very welcome. But conversely, there are also entries on my list that have never been online in the past two years. I recognize quite a lot of these names as ex-accounts of people from the Academy, back when we thought it was clever to have usernames like "m3t4lm1l1t1a" and "ScotchPie666".

But I'm at a loss to imagine where all the others came from. Who, for example, is "birthofasandwich"? When was the last time I talked to "bangprogrammer" or his exciting new sequel "bangprogrammer2"? Why would I ever have added anyone who thinks that "goodcharlotterawk_3"? Or that had the eyesore of a display name "- Җ [ š ъŗǻńđēŗ] Җ - [♫ דѓдתсє ♫ ] - [├┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┤]"?

It needs some serious cleaning out.

Comments

[plette.livejournal.com]

It disturbs me that there are least three people who think that Good Charlotte "rawk."

[kingradix.livejournal.com]

Somehow there's someone from the GameMaker community on my list. Discovered by adding him randomly to one of our mass chat sessions. ¯\(º_o)/¯

[scellanis.livejournal.com]

whenever I have the courage to clean out mine I always delete somebody I shouldn't like Ilovesam for instance who doesn't talk often but is still a god friend...or if I do clean it out I can guarantee those who I deleted will return a few weeks later and start talking to me everyday and trying to show me things via their msn picture and then you are stuck with...do I add them back and then they will know I deleted them or not and hope they go away again...