10 Things I hate About AIM Part II

6.  The Profile-This allows people to express themselves for all to see.  They write all sorts of junk about how much they still love their ex’s.  They will also post song lyrics and links to their favorite sites.  So, what do I hate about it?  Well, let me give you an example of what some people will write.   “Oh Phillip, I still love you, I think about you every waking moment.  I’m always thinking of you.”  Enough said?

7.  Screen Names-Aim allows you to pick your screen name, and that is a good thing, but not when people choose to incorperate words such as babe, chick, love, hot, or sexy.  So a screen names such as xoxsexybabe111 is not good.

8.   Acronyms-AIM users have this nasty habit of using acronyms to express what they are thinking.  Such usage is unnecesary.  I have compiled a small dictionary of some popular acronyms.

LOL- Laugh Out Loud.  Let’s face it, no one really laughs out loud.  Unless you are a complete dork, just say ‘hahaha’.  Easy enough?

LMAO- Laughing My Ass Off.  Physically impossible.

ROTFL- Rolling On The Floor Laughing.  Not sure why you would get up out of your chair, lay down on the floor, and roll around laughing.

ROTFLMAO- Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off.  A combination of the last two.  This is even more rediculous than ROTFL.

ROTFLMAO WAFFLE- If you say this because you think you think it’s cool to attempt and ryhme, then you should go off and live in a hole.

IDK- I Don’t Know (how you could not know what this acronym means).

NVM- Nevermind.

NMU- Nothing Much, You?  In respnse to ‘What’s up?’

9.  Emoticons (or whatever they are called)-Retarded little smilies that only girls seem to use.  There are all sorts of them: happy ones, sad ones, even ones that look like they want to kill you.  Do not use them.  Ever.

10.  Fluffy The Dog-What does this have to do with AIM? Simple.  Aim has ads for Alltel Wireless, and the one commercial that they show where the ‘other networks’ attampt to threaten someone with a dog that isn’t hers.  It belongs to this super buff tough guy with a pug named Fluffy?  Yeah, that is what I wondered too..

Well, there it is.  All 10.  So that’s all for now, or should I say STAFN…

10 Things I Hate About AIM Part I

I know I have written posts in the past about AIM and its problems, but I have now compiled an actual list of the things that I can’t stand about the program. 

1.  The Bots-They are these annoying computer programs designed to act like, for instance, a 17 year old girl.  We will call her Emily.  When you talk to her, she will ask you who your friends are (you type in their screen name), and she then sends out emails to all of them telling them that they are your friend.  This is the kind of crap that AIM Bots do to you. 

2.  AIM Triton-This is basically the professional version of the standard AIM.  A few of my friends and I made the mistake of trying out this version (it was free), thinking that it would give us an overall better experiance.  We were sadly mistaken.  Within a few minutes of the download, Triton had completely commandered my computer.  It had convinced my computer that it was a Barbie obbsessed 7 year old named Barbara Sue.  It also put me on both the Jenny Craig AND all of the televangelist mailing lists.

3.  The Buddy Icons-AIM makes these crummy buddy iconas that say things like, “I don’t mind if he catches me staring, because then I know he was staring back.”  That kind of thing.  In my opinion, it makes you sound like a ‘teeny bopper’ as my grandmother says (she IS cool). 

4.  The Size-The size of the AIM program is rather large.  As a result, your computer is substantially slowed down.  This is not true on my computer, however, because it is faster and better than yours.

5.  The Plug-ins- These are small AIM prgrams that are designed to enhance the fun factor of AIM.  They have things like location which allows you to see where other people are, and Musiclink, which allows the people that you are chatting with to see what you are listening to.  But the worst plug-in is the Buddy Icon Maker.  Once downloaded, it allows you to design and create your own buddy icon, which is usually worse than the standard ones…

Well, that is the first half, and the last five will follow, as soon as I get to it.  I know you are waiting for it…

Problems With AIM

Another thing on my mind lately, is AIM. You can do whatever the heck you want, which might ACTUALLY be a bad thing. Just thought I would throw that idea out there. Also, some people are quite annoying, and there are those people that IM you once, then never again. I have recently grouped my buddy list as follows: Lucky (the people that I talk to), Not Lucky (people that I don’t), and Not Anything (people that do not exist, or that don’t IM anymore, but still give out the screen name). This has helped me immensely in my fight against people that have no idea exactly what they are doing.