Custom Away Messages are Overrated

By Fred LeBlanc – Thursday, May 22, 2008 / 1:04pm View more articles

I'm not here right now, and I'm too lazy to alert you where I am.I don't know if this is a trend or a weird coincidence, but everyone on my buddy list that was away a couple minutes ago was using the standard message that comes with their IM client. What happened to random quotes, clever sayings or even some custom form of "I'm away?"

Those were the days.

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Thursday, May 22, 2008 / 1:38pm ∞ Nick Grant said…

Going to lunch - be back in 10.

Thursday, May 22, 2008 / 1:52pm ∞ Dave Tufts said…

What Fred failed to mention was his own highly descriptive IM message...and I quote, "Owl... Lick... Bald... Win?... Oh!"

Thursday, May 22, 2008 / 1:54pm ∞ Fred LeBlanc said…

It's from Scene It! and it's a "status message." I'm not away... yet.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 / 11:14am ∞ Nick said…

I use:

"Noodle Bonanza" "Food Town" "Meeting" "Saving World, BBIAF"

and others.

Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 / 6:07am ∞ Jeryyms said…

Nice site you have

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