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A list of what not to leave in your AIM/AOL/Yahoo/MSN away messages!

DO
 
- Feel free to get poetic, involve some interest.  Nothing sucks more than "im not here" or the cliche "im away from my computer right now".
- Get inventive!  I can understand time to time, the fast "im out!  cell it" but everytime?  Sooner or later, id figure you can be doing anything and have the same dam away message up!
- Understanding grammar is a good start!  Although we cant all be english majors, ocasionally spelling a word right, making sure you have a ? after a question and a ! after a statement would help me alot ot understand you.
- Chuck Norris, he is a God and you may use him in your away messages, I would heavily advise so actually...
- Links are fine, link me to anything, websites, games, music, anything.  use them, but be sure to explain them as well!
- Remember, leaving no contact information or no hint means people will more than likely leave you alone.  if you dont mind phone calls, type "call me if you want" but be sure, as stated below, you pick up your phone!!
 
DONT
 
- If you are going to Quote something, Put it in "QUOTES" and also, give credit to its author...
- Dont give me exact details of your life at this moment.  I swear some people would leave a GPS location.  If you are out, saying where you are is fine, but I dont care to know the town, city, who you are with, why, pre activities, post activities, what you are eating, etc.
- Honestly, dont leave inside jokes up for a long time, they are funny, but only to one or two people and no one else really cares...
- Quoting AIM conversations is fine, but be careful when you COPY and PASTE that you DONT copy and paste the persons screen name, cause then everyone on your buddy list has it, and some people dont want that.
- Dont say it if you dont mean it!  If you leave "cell it" or "cell me" in your message, pick up your dam cell phone!
- Dont put things that can change, "Im free tonight" and leave for work doesnt work cause then, one person calls, you make plans, then what about the other hundred people who read your away message??
- Dont use last names or slander anyone using names...its not like your totally annonymous...
- If you are going to quote a song, dont make it the entire song, complete with gaps for versus, that shows that you are lazy and copy and pasted it cause you like the beat or something.  And im not going to read the entire thing.
- Make quotes count, dont use them cause you have them!
- Interactive away messages, dont work...barely anyone really replies but the same people that replied to your last one.
- You had a bad day?  Aww, you had the worst day ever?  im sorry....but why the hell do I need to know?  If you need support, contact people personally and dont wait for the pity to role in online.
- Why do some people have HUGE gaps in their away message?  Am I susposed to be in suspense as I take a second to scroll down to see what you typed?  a ... would serve the same purpose and aggravates me less cause I dont have to scroll everywhere!
- Remember, I see the BOTTOM of your away message first, dont do a "Scroll down" how about being a little smarter and doing a "scroll up".
- Try not to be redundant and long winded.  If theres a point, get to it! 
- Away messages arent journals...if somethings private, well, once you put it in your away message, its public!
- Try to monitor your computer.  If you are online, be there, if you are away, please try to remember an away message.  Theres nothing worse than someone coming back five hours later "sorry, i forgot an away message".  If need be, stay in the away state and Im the people you want to, so when you do leave cause something shiney crossed your path, you dont have people IMing you.


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