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O.P. Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
Just a random thing I'm wondering about... Do any of you also get the feeling sometimes that people don't read statuses at all or just like to assume that "Busy" means "Busy for everyone but you"?

I dunno, I get messaged just the same regardless of whether I'm Online or Busy, and sometimes it really annoys me because half the time I actually am doing something else and don't feel like going through the usual boring "hi, how are you? I'm fine, how are you? Oh hey I got a haircut last Friday!" routine. :p

Anyway, just a random thought. :p
03-21-2009 08:34 PM
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RE: Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
When I dont want to be talked to I just go appear offline, then just start chats with the people i wouldnt mind talking to. Idle's also a good status imo because even if they talk, you just dont answer and they _shouldnt_ think that your ignoring them :P
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03-21-2009 08:38 PM
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RE: Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
Busy doesn't mean "I don't want to talk" though... It means messages may be delayed as you have other things to do. Also, as WLM put it, it means "your are busy and may not respond"; not that you shouldn't send them a message lol

Just put something in your psm to tell people not to talk to you :p
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03-21-2009 08:43 PM
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RE: Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
If you don't want people to talk to you, appear as offline. The way I see it, if you have set the status to busy you are doing something else and might not be able to respond instantly.

At least that is the way I see it - I usually message people instantly that I come up with something I have to say to them, regardless of status - even offline. Then again, if I just want to chat I might not do it if the other person indeed has their status set to busy.

I usually just set it to busy to stop getting the sound, then again the flashing taskbar is just as good as getting your attention as the sound.

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RE: Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
What I've noticed actually, is when I set my status to busy, especially if I set a message in my psm stating what I'm doing, I get messaged more than usual. People assume that there's more chance that I'm there and thus assume that I'll speak to them. Ignoring them completely does work but it may take a while and by then I get annoyed. Appear offline is definitely my preferred status choice.
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RE: Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
Lol, I just put my status as busy, then when somebody IM's me, I just say go away, and change my status to Away, and Personal Message to "Watching TV, don't talk to me bcoz I cannot hear it."
03-22-2009 12:11 AM
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RE: Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
If you don't want to be disturbed, don't sign in.....simple as that.

Or if you do have to talk to someone.....do it appearing offline.

Also, as all people use statuses in different ways.....they are kinda loosely interpreted.

Some people are Available/Away/Busy the WHOLE time......so that has devalued statuses.

I'm generally set to whatever is appropriate...but I don't want people talking to me, I don't sign in.....which tbf is never, i like being approchable

it's the same principle as a phone-call......a phonecall is someone basically demanding that you drop whatever you're doing and talk to them.....yet no-one finds a phone-call rude

by being signed in you're giving more of an indication that you want to be talked to than you are by having a phone in your house

yet you'd consider someone calling you out of the blue, demanding your attention, as something normal...positive even......yet someone talking to you while you're busy pisses you off?....maybe look a little closer :P
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RE: Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
A few of my friends go Busy to stop nudges from shaking and to shut Messenger up with the sounds...(but they're all tech noobs)...

And some people are good at lying about their status.

And then those who are horrendous at changing them.

So I just ignore the status.

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RE: Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
I quit choosing a status =P It seems that setting to "Busy" and "Away" is the same as "Message me NAAAAAAO!", at least Guru's Idle Liar helps =P, looks like people don't like chatting with "Idles".
But people know that if they set their status to Away or Busy I simply won't even open a conversation with him/her...
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RE: Do your contacts ignore your Busy status on WLM and talk to you anyway?
lol I'm always "away"
more or less because i'm always "away" in some way...:P
03-22-2009 02:06 AM
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