Terry’s Weblog

I used to be really into to Microsoft Windows Live (formerly MSN) Messenger but I grew out of it and so did my contacts.  Today I still keep myself logged in but I rarely see any messages from friends.

In order to make sure i don’t miss new friends messaging me, I don’t have the program set up to block everyone by default.

In the last several months you’d think I was Mister Popular though!  I must get at least 10 messages a day from people who think I’m “hot” or who think I can fix their computer problems!

This morning I woke up to find 8 open windows from different people!  Here are some of my “new friends”. 

Debora and Lessie says:

I cant upload my pics to msn for some reason! But I want to chat with you.
you can find me on my personal page ********
my name is kelly

Krystal says:

hey cutie a friend of mine showed me yer pic - youre really hot!  you should get on *******~ my profile name is kindakinky773

if u meet me on there soon i’ll get on my cam and we can have some fun!!

Rosetta says:

ijcqiaosmzHello there take a look at ****

Stefanie says:

hey my friend is new to town send her a message on msn messengor her names ******* and ask her for her pic shes cute i promise lol

Now, I have to assume that all of these messages are targeting teenagers and that the people who send these are all non-English speaking or illiterate people since the writing is awful.

Doesn’t Microsoft realize that this stuff is rampant on the site?  Wouldn’t you think they would come up with a way to thwart this?  You would think they would implement a more sophisticated form of CAPTCHA to at least slow them down.

I’m almost at the point where I want to just move totally to Yahoo Messenger.  This type of thing happens there too but only a few times a week instead of 10 times a day.