If someone says here
"It works, I use it, so it works, think what you want" and I reply with
"it does not work as it is unreliable and unreliable things simply do not work (if it did work, it would be 'reliable')" then I think that should have been clear enough....
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Originally posted by Jiggs
i know how it works. notifications can be sent when msn updates the DP, etc etc.
but i get it now!!!! its the EXACT WORDING! Youre one of those type of people.
even tho i said in a previous post or sentence that WE KNOW IT ISN'T reliable, you still pick the one sentence where i use the word know. I'm so sorry. ill rephrase
most people use it so that they have some warning that maybe someone has maybe opened a convo with them maybe. maybe.
and it works for me, maybe, most of the time. i know which are fake, cos the ones that are fake, don't end up with someone messaging me 2 seconds later.
But most of them are real. maybe.
yes maybe I'm one of those people maybe....
Do you know that whole history of those "block checkers"? It is very similar (if not just the same). In cases like this the wordings do have a big impact... proof is that it has been taken a very long time to teach/convince people that block checkers do not work. And it all had todo with the fact that people (unwillingly, granted) weren't carefull enough in choosing their words when talking about it.
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