Instant Messaging is Soooo 2004
Oct. 28th, 2006 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxcelcatDon't ask me why, but I've ended up occasionally chatting online to the thirteen year old daughter of a friend of mine. Not a whole lot, we (strangely) have nothing in common.
What amused me was the display name she's using. I've seen the likes of it before. Strings of characters which look for all the world like line noise. Tildas (~) etc. etc. However, this one was impressive, stretching over several lines on my display (slightly edited to make her less identifiable):
I feel quite inadequate by comparison. My display name is "Maxcelcat - Salariman". I'm just not trying, I'm just an online old fuddy duddy. What do you recon,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ok_i_give_in?
I also wonder how one comes up with this kind of thing. Does it evolve, just getting longer and longer? Is it static? Is someone somewhere making a sociological study of the phenomenon? And if not, why not? :-)
What amused me was the display name she's using. I've seen the likes of it before. Strings of characters which look for all the world like line noise. Tildas (~) etc. etc. However, this one was impressive, stretching over several lines on my display (slightly edited to make her less identifiable):
____ s k y™ // ~ i always knew i knew || i hate nz withh love * t b f L;; - --:(Hmmmm, live journal has clipped some of the spaces from it, it's a lot longer in MSN.)
I feel quite inadequate by comparison. My display name is "Maxcelcat - Salariman". I'm just not trying, I'm just an online old fuddy duddy. What do you recon,
ok_i_give_in?I also wonder how one comes up with this kind of thing. Does it evolve, just getting longer and longer? Is it static? Is someone somewhere making a sociological study of the phenomenon? And if not, why not? :-)
