Strange experience today... all day people I didn't know kept IMing me. I thought at first it might be Betty or Liz or someone (since they often seem to change their screen names and can talk the proper IM lingo) but these people all seemed to know me and I had no clue who they were. One finally asked if I was Emily, i said yes, and if I had a profile on myspace. I quickly checked and no where on my new profile (which I made last week as part of my exploration of how the library could use the site) did I give my IM address and I have no friends linked over there so no one would have found me through there... then I did a search and realized that there's a highschool girl with my IM screenname as her myspace id... another emily of course... so it totally explained why they thought I was her... and their other disbelief that I didn't know who they were and what they were talking about. That Emily has a whole lot of IMing friends!
I know, I shouldn't have my IM client open at work, but we're using jabber internally now and I had the faint hope that one day someone would ask me a work question (plus I chat with Mom sometimes)
Posted by Emily at May 19, 2006 03:51 PM