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The messenger plus has enabled me to discover that I've been blocked off someone's contact list.I did actually suspect that their persistent offline status was starting to look suspicious;then I upgraded my messenger and discovered the ugly truth..Has anyone been shunned in such a way, and did they seek vengeance????
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But Honey. The thing is. Sometimes it's the only way. You'd pop up in the corner of the screen and she'd feel you eagering for her to initiate conversation and ... ugh. What was there to say? Your novelty had worn off weeks ago. You can't say she didn't try. All those conversations she hauled into the text window from stuttering fingertips. Remember those? Conversations that invariably spluttered and died after trading four, five sentences apiece. She just didn't know what to say. You must understand. Sometimes it's just so much easier. To trace your finger down the tracker pad. A farewell stroke. Before tapping Block.
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I think u can loggon to any any search engine ; type in "Messenger PLus" and hey presto! Download it...and then the truth shall be revealed! Lots of new options on there too....Almost seems like a godamm tracking device..
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Be very careful with this, it comes bundled with the infamous Lop spyware which is pretty vicious stuff. If you do install it make very sure you opt out of that during installation.
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In fact, having just read around a bit more about this, I'm now not even 100% convinced that opting out of the spyware during installation is completely safe. I'd stay away from it to be honest.
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In the interests of discovering whether it is a threat (and finding out whether anyone has blocked me, though I've not found out how yet) I've installed it and run both Adaware and Spybot, neither found anything to report, it hasn't added anything to the applications which run at startup, and I haven't noticed anything untoward to be honest.
So how do I find out if anyone has blocked me?
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I've been using Messenger Plus for about a year and I have to say that its most useful feature is the assignable Boss Protection shortcut. This allows you to configure a keyboard shortcut which will hide all messenger windows, as well as the telltale system tray icon. You can also disable the advertising banner at the bottom of the main messenger window - although this feature will sadly be removed for the MSN Messenger v7.0 update (* beta).
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oh! So that's why everyone on my contacts list appears to be offline every time I log on. I thought I was just unlucky. Posts: 2814
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I thought it had been a case of poetic justice for my blocking of a forette who was always on whenever I went online - suspected I'd been the victim of death by messenge.
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I dunno - I find messenging a bit unsatisfying as a means of communication. I can't type fast enough to maintain any kind of flow. Posts: 8657
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it hasn't added anything to the applications which run at startup, and I haven't noticed anything untoward to be honest.
So how do I find out if anyone has blocked me?
I figured this out when clicking through thier varios options. THere's one where u can "personalize alerts" meaning u can have a special sound played whenever of on yr contacts loggs on, kind of kind of like the option you have on cell phones, a different ring for each caller, on the messenger plus you can personnalize the default alert whenever the contact - 1.disconnects - 2.changes his/her status to busy or away - 3.changes his/her screen name - 4.or simply loggs on!!! If you've been blocked by anyone, the 4th option is unavaible to you! That's how I found about me having been blocked::: I must admit that i've only ever blocked vague internet aquaintances , and not "real people" as such, flesh 'n blood like. The person who blocked me happened to be an ex" so I suppose when exes are involved its blocking galore. But if u really want someone off yr contact list, why just block them? and not delete them totally?? Does this mean that their is still light under the blockage tunnel?
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quote:Originally posted by Honey: the truth is out there.....
interesting... *makes steeple with fingers, tries to look cryptic*
I rarely use messenger anymore, I don't mind one on one conversations that much but I find multiways are a massive headfuck. Also through lack of accessing old redundant hottmale accounts due to new sexy shiny gmail I lost two of my old msn addresses.*
*this excuse would also work if you were trying to pretend that you hadn't blocked virtually everyone you know.
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What's this rubbish about "personalize alerts"? I can find no such option! I can assign sounds to the signing-in and -out of contacts, but not their changing of status or screen name. Where am I supposed to look, Honey? Trying to decipher your posts has broken my eyes. Are you really a student, by the way? Are you the reason I lost all faith in university?
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quote:Originally posted by Honey: if u really want someone off yr contact list, why just block them? and not delete them totally??
Deleting someone from your contact list just stops you seeing when they log on, it doesn't stop them seeing when you log on. So removing someone from your contact list in the hope that if you can't see them they won't see you, is rather reminiscent of an ostrich burying its head in the sand in effect.
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I've seen posts on other boards where people wondered if you could tell when you were blocked. I never could understand why. I mean, why would you want to sit there, scrolling through your contacts to see who's blocked you? I would think it would just make for bad feelings all around. Like Uber, I can't stand trying to carry on a bunch of conversations at once. I so rarely log onto Messenger any more because of that. Even when I'm set to 'busy' or 'away' there are certain people who insist on butting in to say hello. There was one girl in particular who I finally blocked, that would do this all the time. When I would try to tell her that I was busy talking to someone, she'd do the guilt trip thing: "Oh, so sorry to bother you, I'm sure the other person is much more important. Talk to me as soon as you're done with them." I hate that. Then I feel obligated to talk to her afterwards, or feel guilty if I don't. I've often had to pretend that I got disconnected. Like Fionula said, eventually you run out of things to say. Those stilted, say-nothing conversations are just a waste of time. I totally agree with jonesy:
quote:What kind of devilry is this? Everyone on my contact list is blocked. I only unblock individuals if I have time and something I need to say. This is fucking gash, man. MSN without blocking feels like an open phone line to everyone you know. "Hi Jonesy, how's it going?" "Erm, I'm only getting up for a piss. Please hang up."
It's like people watching through your window to see if you're home. If I want to close my curtains, or block certain people, I don't think they need to be questioning why.
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I knew this mad girl who had a livejournal linked to her homepage or something so she could log people who looked at it, and she became totally obsessed by trying to find out who had been looking at her LJ and went even more mad. Which is a bit releavent to the conversation...a bit. Ahem.
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