A few years ago, I went into my friend\’s room and saw her aim buddy list. At that time, I was shocked that she had so many people online. Was she that popular!
And now, my aim buddy list keeps hitting the limit. I don\’t talk to the majority of the people on my list, and I really should delete names. But I always have this thought – what if I need to talk/stalk them later?!
And now, my main group (not the security group) constantly has more than 56 people online each day which makes the scrollbar appear. Initially, I thought…whoa, I am popular. Then I realized how I don\’t even take the iniative to im any of these people. I am just hanging on a thin thread of wannabe popularity. That kind of need to be accepted.
Maybe I should delete my entire buddy list and start over again. But I can\’t. I need to stalk people.
And I swear. I want throw something rotten at those people who constantly sign on with three of their screennames at a time.
You should start bugging them all. Make you talk to all the people you\’re not secretly stalking everyone once in a while (like a week, a month, etc.). GAIM has a feature with groups people like that into one, but it\’s not specifically designed for OS X (though you could convert the BSD or Linux versions with little trouble). Why you would want to, I do not know.
My AIM buddy list is the same way. I probably talk to only a handful of people regularly, yet I have over 100 people on my buddy list.
While customizing adium, I deleted over a 100 buddies!!! Haha I couldn\’t even remember half of them!