I've had this happen once. I was on this site called "Diva Chix" and someone got hold of my Yahoo and MSN screenname and added me. Then she sent me an IM and said, "Hi!"

I was like, "Uh, hi... who are you?"

Then she proceeded to tell me who she was, stating that she was Jess's friend. Now, I don't even know who this Jess is. I know I have a friend named Jessica, but it was *obviously* not the same one.

So this girl and I had a small conversation in which she asked was I a guy or girl, where was I from, and was I single. All in all, it was extremely odd, but I got a nice giggle from it.

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yeah,

I get that a lot too due to my forgetfulness and having so many people faved. XD

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Similar to that , I've signed up for websites I've never heard of. Recently, I've been included on a site where your family is supposed to "Hook up", it's awful strange.

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I hope you know that I'm a bad influence on your kids

I usually never get that because I don't mindlessly add people and confuse the hell outta them XD

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I love everyone equally, I just love women a little bit more because they have boobs. :3c

It used to happen to me all the time, in fact i had to cleanse my e-mail account once because most people on my MSN list were complete strangers.

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"And i brought Mozart! Because experts say 'Mozart makes babies smart' and the best part is they don't have to hear because they're sleeping. My parents never played Mozart to me and sometime i don't know what people is saying..."-Kari, The incredibles.

There's only 4 or 5 people that I regularly talk to from the web and probably will for a long long time. I talk to other people and give them a shot, and rarely delete people from my list, but for the most part, if you don't see eye to eye on many things or can't relate, or don't have similar interests, it's hard to stay interested in those other people. And besides, it's hard keeping up with a huge network of peoples lives in the first place. I like to talk about video games, movies, net funnies, drawma and YouTube comments, not to mention whatever other banana sandwich ridiculous things I encounter in real life. I like to play with other Nintendo gamers, usually over Skype, when I play games like Mario Kart Wii, it's good fun.

People from the past IM me all the time asking who I am, and I have pretty good memory, so I usually remember who they are or where I met them. I too get random IM's from people who I don't know, and I'm always open to talking to them to satisfy their boredom. Sometimes it gives me something funny to talk about with my friends. And the odd time, I might make a new friend.

All in all, if someones creeping you out, quietly blocking them for all eternity is the way to go, lmao. But I don't know, if someone messages me and we don't know who each other are, I'll give them a chance to explain who they are, I'll explain who I am, because you can never remember what the circumstances were when you first met them. Maybe they were really busy when they contacted you, and you just never got to know them well enough. They might be interesting people, and I don't like to pass that chance up. A lot of the time, after they re-introduce themselves, they disappear and don't talk to you for another year and a half. Whatever, it's a gamble, and I've got nothing to lose.

What I do hate though, is when people put in their screen name: "New Email! Add me @ suchandsuch@hotmail.com if you ever want to talk to me again!" Like, shut the hell up, you're changing emails to be a convenience to yourself; if they care about me at all, they'll add me themselves. If I was going to get a new email, I'd write down all the important people I need to re-add, and then I'd pretty much take off without alerting the rest of my list. Lazy bums!

What you've described is an example of lack of awareness of how the self is perceived by others, and it does reflect poor social development which could reflect a mental difficulty, a relatively isolated upbringing, or both.

Unfortunately there isn't much that can be done about it.

LOL, except for *BLOCK*

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一遍、死んでみる?...

Well, I've never had that happen to me exactly...but one time someone IM'd me and I asked where they had gotten my screenname. They said they'd saw it on the toolbar at the bottom of a screenshot that I had taken of my desktop two years ago (and then uploaded it to photobucket to show a friend). I was just like...wow. LOL

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