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Kiopa_Matt · 08-16-2010, 10:04 AM

This is something I don't understand. I usually get say 3 - 5 people a week adding me to ICQ for (what seems like) legit reasons. I don't mean the Russian spam guys, but people who put legit and reasonable explanations as to why they're adding me.

Yet, many times I'm not online when they add me, and I'll never hear from them. Will try to contact them to see what they're looking for, but never get a response back. What's with that? Are people around here just REALLY impulsive and forgetful, or???

Barefootsies · 08-16-2010, 10:07 AM

It has always been that way. Most you never hear from.

I guess ICQ is like a name dropping contest for some people. Which would put a lot of message board posts in context. At least for those who think that this industry is a popularity contest.

Zuzana Designs · 08-16-2010, 10:11 AM

I hate ICQ and wish we would all use Skype or just use e-mail. ICQ pisses me off everyday. When I have to add someone I have to delete a contact. I'm running out of people to delete as they are all active clients or friends. I get 50 Russians trying to add themselves daily. Lost messages and stupid ICQ ads flashing in your face all day.

Kiopa_Matt · 08-16-2010, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Zuzana Designs

I hate ICQ and wish we would all use Skype or just use e-mail.

Yeah, you're actually right. Considering porn is supposed to be known for the ground breaking technology, they're quite behind the times when it comes to communication. Nobody outside the porn industry uses ICQ.

If you go mainstream, people will say something like, "Ohhh, ICQ! Yeah, I remember that from about 6 years ago".

Basic_man · 08-16-2010, 10:17 AM

True, but our business is built around this technology, so we just have to get used to it :P

rowan · 08-16-2010, 02:06 PM

It's possible they're sending you a message with a URL in it, which gets filtered. I don't require auth but ICQ still ignores/filters messages which contain URLs... and it's not consistent either, sometimes they get through, sometimes they don't. If I need to send someone new a message that contains a URL I'll send the message, and add that I'm going to send the URL separately in the next line.

Zuzana Designs · 08-16-2010, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by RDFrame

Yeah, you're actually right. Considering porn is supposed to be known for the ground breaking technology, they're quite behind the times when it comes to communication. Nobody outside the porn industry uses ICQ.

If you go mainstream, people will say something like, "Ohhh, ICQ! Yeah, I remember that from about 6 years ago".

I use Skype for my mainstream design company Green Arrow Designs ICQ is dead to the real world in 2010.

Juicy D. Links · 08-16-2010, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Zuzana Designs

I use Skype for my mainstream design company Green Arrow Designs ICQ is dead to the real world in 2010.

Skype me I am on webcam and naked

iSpyCams · 08-16-2010, 05:09 PM

Yep. It's only you adult dinosaurs that still use ICQ. You people are the only reason I use it.

Skype is what's up.

The reason they don't get back to you is cause ICQ fucking sucks. By the time you hear back from someone you cant fucking remember yourself who they are or why you added them cause all you have is a damn number that's not attached to any other info.

Sarah_Jayne · 08-17-2010, 03:30 AM

I think it is usually people just adding to the contact lists. So, either they can send a mass message and spam as most people as possible at one time with it or for if they ever need to talk to you in the future.

The Duck · 08-17-2010, 03:41 AM

Happens all the time to me as well.

CDSmith · 08-17-2010, 03:52 AM

I just woke up, sat at le computer and sure enough, like pretty much every morning there were about half a dozen "so-and-so added you"'s waiting for me. Took me exactly 11.2 seconds to delete them.

It's been like that for many years now, I don't even think about it one way or the other any more, except for whenever someone posts a thread like this.

Zuzana Designs · 08-17-2010, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links

Skype me I am on webcam and naked

I looked for you late last night but could only find was this guy on cam naked.

michael.kickass · 08-17-2010, 07:02 AM

I hope we stop using ICQ at some point in the future since it's clear that the guys who developed the technology are way behind these times.

Dirty Lord · 08-17-2010, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links

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CaptainHowdy · 08-17-2010, 07:07 AM

Fuck ICQ...

Jakez · 08-17-2010, 07:09 AM

I never understood why ICQ is so widely used in this industry anyways.. who the hell wants to use a bunch of random numbers as their username?

JuicyAds2 · 08-17-2010, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Zuzana Designs

I hate ICQ and wish we would all use Skype or just use e-mail. ICQ pisses me off everyday. When I have to add someone I have to delete a contact. I'm running out of people to delete as they are all active clients or friends. I get 50 Russians trying to add themselves daily. Lost messages and stupid ICQ ads flashing in your face all day.

SO exactly what I wanted to say. To the letter! I lose so many ICQ messages between two laptops and my phone. I'm sorry if it was ever me who accidentally ignored someone's message!

JuicyAds2 · 08-17-2010, 07:36 AM

And as I just wrote the last thread my ICQ disconnected me for the first of many times today. SKYPE SKYPE SKYPE!

PR_Glen · 08-17-2010, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Jakez

I never understood why ICQ is so widely used in this industry anyways.. who the hell wants to use a bunch of random numbers as their username?

people who use phones?

how is the alternative better? Nobody has original handles anymore anyway it has to be like diablo99103_coolthing7@emailprovider dot com in order to not be in 'current use' anyway.

At least with Icq you can change it anytime you want. Or if its too baby like, which it is, you could just as easily use trillian. That's what works for me anyway.

Paul Markham · 08-17-2010, 09:38 AM

I get people trying to add me and when I ask them what they want, before adding them, they reply with something useless like I saw you and thought I would add you. They don't get added.

Amputate Your Head · 08-17-2010, 09:42 AM

I stopped using ICQ (Adium) last year for good. Was down to 2 contacts in there, and was time to put it to rest. Fired it up once this year to see if it was still active... but that's it. It's an inefficient method of client communication, and very 90s. Zuzana hit it on the head.... it's time to move on to better things people. ICQ is a tool from the stone age.

Zuzana Designs · 08-17-2010, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by JuicyAds2

And as I just wrote the last thread my ICQ disconnected me for the first of many times today. SKYPE SKYPE SKYPE!

I have been fighting ICQ all morning. Trying to add people and remove people. Fighting the russian spammers and I LOVE it when icq just closes in your face! I have had several clients chat today via Skype and it has been perfect. Fuck ICQ and it's online flowers!

Klen · 08-17-2010, 09:46 AM

I noticed one thing on icq,when it comes to spam it usually happen only on original client for some reason.On miranda i barely get ever any spam request.

Klen · 08-17-2010, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Zuzana Designs

I have been fighting ICQ all morning. Trying to add people and remove people. Fighting the russian spammers and I LOVE it when icq just closes in your face! I have had several clients chat today via Skype and it has been perfect. Fuck ICQ and it's online flowers!

You need miranda and multiple icq numbers and problem solved

Vendzilla · 08-17-2010, 09:47 AM

I have trillion, two icq numbers, one gets people tagging me all the time, I ask do I know you and hit the X button
Lately my face book is getting a lot of spam, that concerns me, just want that to friends and some business

Jakez · 08-17-2010, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by PR_Glen

people who use phones?

how is the alternative better? Nobody has original handles anymore anyway it has to be like diablo99103_coolthing7@emailprovider dot com in order to not be in 'current use' anyway.

At least with Icq you can change it anytime you want. Or if its too baby like, which it is, you could just as easily use trillian. That's what works for me anyway.

I use trillian also, and I see your point about the numbers, but my main grief is when I'm filling out forms on a site and there's an ICQ field I have to bring up trillian > manage connections then copy & paste my long number. At least with a screen name and a few numbers I can memorize it easier.

And then there's the russian spammers.... not even getting started on that.

Zuzana Designs · 08-17-2010, 10:34 AM

Who else loves the copy and paste on ICQ! Not me cause shit is always too long to paste it in one conversation! I hate ICQ

JustDaveXxx · 08-17-2010, 11:34 AM

I have ICQ for Mac and have no issues. I keep all adult on ICQ and keep my others on Trillion.

The Mac version of ICQ is clean with no adds.

I do see how annoying the PC version of ICQ is. That would drive me nutz, having flashing banners in my face all day long. If i was on a PC, I would look for some kind of after market "something or other" that has a cleaner interface that is compatible with ICQ.

k0nr4d · 08-17-2010, 11:37 AM

Lets not kid ourselves. As shitty as ICQ is, we will all keep using it until they stop running the servers for it. You should all just suck it up and quit whining, as much as we all want to leave it we're stuck with it until AOL deems it unprofitable and shuts it down.

Amputate Your Head · 08-17-2010, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Lets not kid ourselves. As shitty as ICQ is, we will all keep using it until they stop running the servers for it. You should all just suck it up and quit whining, as much as we all want to leave it we're stuck with it until AOL deems it unprofitable and shuts it down.

LOL, no you will keep using it. I've stopped a long time ago.

ottopottomouse · 08-17-2010, 12:23 PM

Prefer email for anything serious.

08-16-2010, 10:04 AM	#1
Kiopa_Matt Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,448	ICQ -- People adding you... This is something I don't understand. I usually get say 3 - 5 people a week adding me to ICQ for (what seems like) legit reasons. I don't mean the Russian spam guys, but people who put legit and reasonable explanations as to why they're adding me. Yet, many times I'm not online when they add me, and I'll never hear from them. Will try to contact them to see what they're looking for, but never get a response back. What's with that? Are people around here just REALLY impulsive and forgetful, or??? __________________ xMarkPro -- Ultimate Blog Network Management Streamline your marketing operations. Centralize management of domains, pages, Wordpress blogs, sponsors, link codes, media items, sales and traffic statistics, plus more!

08-16-2010, 10:07 AM	#2
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08-16-2010, 10:11 AM	#3
Zuzana Designs All Your Design Needs Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: [email protected] Posts: 20,865	I hate ICQ and wish we would all use Skype or just use e-mail. ICQ pisses me off everyday. When I have to add someone I have to delete a contact. I'm running out of people to delete as they are all active clients or friends. I get 50 Russians trying to add themselves daily. Lost messages and stupid ICQ ads flashing in your face all day. __________________ Website Design - Consulting - Development sarah [at] zuzanadesigns.com - See Our Work

08-16-2010, 10:17 AM	#5
Basic_man Programming King Pin Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Montreal Posts: 27,360	True, but our business is built around this technology, so we just have to get used to it :P __________________ UUGallery Builder - automated photo/video gallery plugin for Wordpress! Stop looking! Checkout Naked Hosting, online since 1999 !

08-17-2010, 03:41 AM	#11
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08-16-2010, 02:06 PM	#6
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	It's possible they're sending you a message with a URL in it, which gets filtered. I don't require auth but ICQ still ignores/filters messages which contain URLs... and it's not consistent either, sometimes they get through, sometimes they don't. If I need to send someone new a message that contains a URL I'll send the message, and add that I'm going to send the URL separately in the next line.

08-16-2010, 05:09 PM	#9
iSpyCams Amateur Gynecologist Industry Role: Join Date: May 2009 Location: Medellin Posts: 4,436	Yep. It's only you adult dinosaurs that still use ICQ. You people are the only reason I use it. Skype is what's up. The reason they don't get back to you is cause ICQ fucking sucks. By the time you hear back from someone you cant fucking remember yourself who they are or why you added them cause all you have is a damn number that's not attached to any other info.

08-17-2010, 03:30 AM	#10
Sarah_Jayne Now with more Jayne Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 40,077	I think it is usually people just adding to the contact lists. So, either they can send a mass message and spam as most people as possible at one time with it or for if they ever need to talk to you in the future.

08-17-2010, 03:52 AM	#12
CDSmith Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Location: My network is hosted at TECHIEMEDIA.net ...Wait, you meant where am I located at? Oh... okay, I'm in Winnipeg, Canada. Oops. :) Posts: 51,460	I just woke up, sat at le computer and sure enough, like pretty much every morning there were about half a dozen "so-and-so added you"'s waiting for me. Took me exactly 11.2 seconds to delete them. It's been like that for many years now, I don't even think about it one way or the other any more, except for whenever someone posts a thread like this. __________________ *Promote Wildmatch, ImLive, Sexier.com, and more!!* ALWAYS THE HIGHEST PAYOUTS: Big Bux/ImLive SIGNUP ON NOW!!! Put some PUSSYCA$H in your pocket. ICQ me at: 31024634

08-17-2010, 07:02 AM	#14
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08-17-2010, 07:09 AM	#17
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08-17-2010, 07:36 AM	#19
JuicyAds2 Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 47	And as I just wrote the last thread my ICQ disconnected me for the first of many times today. SKYPE SKYPE SKYPE! __________________ Caryl Client Services - JuicyAds.com icq: 646929771 email: [email protected]

08-17-2010, 09:38 AM	#21
Paul Markham Too old to care Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: On the sofa, watching TV or doing my jigsaws. Posts: 52,943	I get people trying to add me and when I ask them what they want, before adding them, they reply with something useless like I saw you and thought I would add you. They don't get added. __________________ Blowout deal. 880 videos, 2,400 image sets, plus many RAW videos. $500. PM me for a deal. Skype Paulmarkham70

08-17-2010, 09:42 AM	#22
Amputate Your Head There can be only one Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 39,075	I stopped using ICQ (Adium) last year for good. Was down to 2 contacts in there, and was time to put it to rest. Fired it up once this year to see if it was still active... but that's it. It's an inefficient method of client communication, and very 90s. Zuzana hit it on the head.... it's time to move on to better things people. ICQ is a tool from the stone age. __________________ SIG TOO BIG

08-17-2010, 09:46 AM	#24
Klen Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Little Vienna Posts: 32,235	I noticed one thing on icq,when it comes to spam it usually happen only on original client for some reason.On miranda i barely get ever any spam request.

08-17-2010, 09:47 AM	#26
Vendzilla Biker Gnome Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cell#324 Posts: 23,200	I have trillion, two icq numbers, one gets people tagging me all the time, I ask do I know you and hit the X button Lately my face book is getting a lot of spam, that concerns me, just want that to friends and some business __________________ Webair died? Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants think about that

08-17-2010, 10:34 AM	#28
Zuzana Designs All Your Design Needs Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: [email protected] Posts: 20,865	Who else loves the copy and paste on ICQ! Not me cause shit is always too long to paste it in one conversation! I hate ICQ __________________ Website Design - Consulting - Development sarah [at] zuzanadesigns.com - See Our Work Last edited by Zuzana Designs; 08-17-2010 at 10:40 AM..

08-17-2010, 11:34 AM	#29
JustDaveXxx I AM JUSTDAVE ! Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: LA Posts: 4,111	I have ICQ for Mac and have no issues. I keep all adult on ICQ and keep my others on Trillion. The Mac version of ICQ is clean with no adds. I do see how annoying the PC version of ICQ is. That would drive me nutz, having flashing banners in my face all day long. If i was on a PC, I would look for some kind of after market "something or other" that has a cleaner interface that is compatible with ICQ. __________________ Smut Peddler Productions.com ICQ #378-696-435 / / Skype: JustDaveXxx "We shoot custom, exclusive content your way"

08-17-2010, 11:37 AM	#30
k0nr4d Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Poland Posts: 9,227	Lets not kid ourselves. As shitty as ICQ is, we will all keep using it until they stop running the servers for it. You should all just suck it up and quit whining, as much as we all want to leave it we're stuck with it until AOL deems it unprofitable and shuts it down. __________________ Mechanical Bunny Media Mechbunny Tube Script \| Mechbunny Webcam Aggregator Script \| Custom Web Development

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