The Yahoo thing.....

Yesterday I’ve been doing nothing apart from reading blogs which has become addictive than a novel these days, am sure most of you agree to it. After reading as many blogs possible, I logged in to my yahoo to check if I have received something new. I have 200 unread messages at the moment in my inbox after deleting 1000 unread messages the other day. And I did religiously read some of the mails for the reason that I didn’t want to refuse to pay attention to some of those sent by old friends, while the rest were just ads that I had to disregard. Well, ads regarding baby-sitters. What do I have to do with such mails anyway? I didn’t find any mail which said “I Miss you a lot,” from anyone, rather found a lot of forwarded e-mails, which displays a list of 200 email addresses as soon as it’s opened and you have to scroll down and down and down to read the original message. Well, someone starts forwarding that e-mail to the bunch of readers in their list and it goes on and on and ends up laying in my inbox for many months and, I? Just delete it without reading. So, finally I’ve decided to keep my yahoo inbox neat and follow the process of deleting those silly ads for a while now.

I’ve also had the idea to check my offline messages (if any) on yahoo messenger. Honestly I’ve stopped using yahoo messenger because of the unknown people I’ve added in my list way back. I found no offline messages, besides another window pops up with a message to upgrade the yahoo thing! I didn’t realize I was appeared online to everyone, and people started pinging me – Hi, how are you? Long time no see, where have you been? Etc. I go invisible and still I get their messages – You there? What happened? Why did you logout? Etc. As soon as the traffic cleared I replied to the one’s I know and stayed invisible to the rest. Here’s a funny and a weird conversation which was just about half a minute, but made me wonder with the trick he used to know more about me:

Sandy: hiiiiii (Long hi, eh)?

Me: Hi?

Sandy: How are you?

Me: ?

Sandy: I hope u remember me, if not it’s all right!

Me: I don't. I'm sorry!

Sandy: I'm from Chandigarh, we had a chat, remember?

Me: No? (blank)

Sandy: You were an engineering student.

Me: Neh (I was a commerce student).

Sandy: Well but I know you were from Gujrat.

Me: Oh is it? (I am not from gujrat dude).

Sandy: And you're the eldest in the family.

Me: (ha, I'm the youngest) what?

Sandy: I know you're father has some.... car business.....

Me: Really?

Sandy: Yeah, see I remember everything about you!

Me: Bad memory dude, try it on someone else.

Sandy: So, how are you?

Ignore user, Report sandy as spam

(This is what basically happens, when you add people you don't know and login after so many years.)

It so much reminded me of a post I read recently about yahoo chat rooms in one of a very sweet bloggers blogposts, which made me laugh so much(you may also want to read it here). Chatting on yahoo is like to be in “CONFUSION” for a while, you won’t know whom to reply to and sometimes send messages to the wrong person, and say “Oops that wasn’t for you.” I’m estimating my yahoo ID to be 10-12 years old now, and don’t remember creating it myself. But when I was in school I didn’t know what blogging was all about? And was never aware of any social network, I only survived logging in on yahoo account and feel happy to get those stupid ads as well. And all I remember I did was to accept friend requests only if I liked the name, which is sanely insane. Well as a kid I used to do it. Now I know the t&c’s (not to accept requests if I don’t know the person). Apart from keeping my inbox neat, I have also decided to clean my yahoo messenger list.

This is it about the friends I have on my yahoo list and the weird mails I get.