XYZ: Hello Davidylan, this is XYZ from Nairaland.com
Davidylan: hi
XYZ: hello
_{5 minutes wait,}

XYZ: asl please
Davidylan: please introduce yourself first
XYZ: XYZ from nairaland.com
Davidylan: are you new? i've never seen your Nairaland id before.
XYZ: yes i'm new
XYZ: Buzz
XYZ: talk to me
XYZ: Buzz
_{*Davidylan sets YIM to invisible*}

Am i the only one who is constantly peppered with this kind of desperate girls who don't seem to have anything to say beyond "hello this is ABC from nairaland" or "will you be my friend?".
I sometimes wonder why people still havent learnt the basic skill in human relations. If you initiate a conversation, the onus lies on you to carry that conversation at least until you can convince the other individual why you deserve a piece of his precious time. Dont say hi and then start buzzing and telling me to talk to you because i just can't! i don't know you and i did not start my day planning to talk to you!

you are soooo right on that one
omg,i hate peeps hu say asl pls
am lik will u just carry on a conversation first b4 asking my whatever asl means

LOL,right

arrgh thts y i ignore most yim id's
with all respect its annoying

Dave,i cant long on to yahoo,do you have msn?reply asap abeg!

Lol!I guess that kindda contradicts the topic doesnt it?

lol, @ david, guess most of em are into u and u prolly had the height of it for posting that here, I blame u not.
good thing u didn't mention her/his name.

hope the person involve sees that and learn a thing or two 

David?!

lol. The good thing is that I don't have my id on my profile. If anyone wants to talk to me, they need to ask first

Yeah i once got 8 of those people in less than an 30 mins, irritating but bearable!!!

bearable??

I guess most of them are probably yahoo boys and girls doing their thing.

hey spiky, sorry. i'm installing MSN messenger. give me 5 more mins pls

spiky, what's ur msn? i finally got the darned thing working

spikey_nairaland@hotmail.com
Whats yours?

spikey _ nairaland @ hotmail . com

davidylan@hotmail.com i just added you

i was about to post this topic. didnt someone read my mind

Ok!Sorry peeps for hijacking the thread,you can carry on!

@Daviddylan

It is the Yankee Factor. I get females call my phone from Nigeria and tell me they got my number from a friend and that they want to be my friend. OK then here comes the daily flashes from Nigeria. When i call them back after the tenth flash, i say hello and ask why all the flashes? "Oh i Just wanted to hear your voice". Is it me or are these chics just desperate?

Oh my God! I get that A LOT! I've blocked and deleted more than 20. I'm practically always invisible. It's so annoying. It's always like:

- Asl?

Whenever I see that, I block and delete immediately.

It is the Yankee Factor. I get females call my phone from Nigeria and tell me they got my number from a friend and that they want to be my friend. OK then here comes the daily flashes from Nigeria. When i call them back after the tenth flash, i say hello and ask why all the flashes? Oh i wanted to hear your voice.

cheap ,good for nothing tarts

It is the Yankee Factor. I get females call my phone from Nigeria and tell me they got my number from a friend and that they want to be my friend. OK then here comes the daily flashes from Nigeria. When i call them back after the tenth flash, i say hello and ask why all the flashes? Oh i wanted to hear your voice.

Do people really expect people to fall for this?

Rhodalyn and I used to get that all the time Damn annoying, til we decided to play them at their own game.

Everytime they type asl? we would reply, asl?

Everytime I got - hello this is bla bla bla from Nairaland.com, I'd reply with, hello this is 2cantango from Nairaland.com

Pisses them right off!

Some of them would argue with crap like - but I asked you first - big babies.

I've since removed my messenger id from my profile - just like j-girl said, if they want to contact me, they can approach me here first.

Probably they are just trying to make new friends, thats all it aint that bad

@King Davidlyn

Honestly, i am tired of those kind of Yahoo stuff.

But since we dont have PM again, we got no option.

I'll agree with you, Badman, I've made quite a number of friends through that. And I always keep myself ''invisible''

Kola bobo, where have you been?

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Am i the only one who is constantly peppered with this kind of desperate girls who don't seem to have anything to say beyond "hello this is ABC from nairaland" or "will you be my friend?".
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Nope David, u are not the only one, and its mostly newbies. There's always a learning curve.

davidylan :

Dont say hi and then start buzzing and telling me to talk to you because i just can't! i don't know you and i did not start my day planning to talk to you!

Have no fear, u are under no obligation to carry on the conversation. If they started the convo they are responsible for piquing your interest.

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I'll agree with you, Badman, I've made quite a number of friends through that.

True, I have too, but at least have something to say.

yea u are rite mocha, they should have something to say or else there is nothing wrong at them, hailing u

First i welcomed all sorts to say hi, then after annoying hrs where colleagues had to tell me to stop the constant YIM pinging i started setting my YIM invisible, then i lost a lot of valuable opportunities to talk to friends and now i'm back to the constant pinging again with annoying nitwits!
I met a great person via that method though lol she knows herself!!!  

Well, what I normally do is to study the line of thought or the pattern of my would be friend discussion. I also take time to go through the person's profile. If it's filled with smileys and things like that, I quickly back off. But if it's filled with interesting write ups and constrictive arguments, then, I can connect. That's how I got Chinani and 2cantango - as good friends.