… or more precisely: how to be left alone on ICQ.

I’ve been receiving lots of messages by people I don’t know at all on ICQ. This has become really annoying the last weeks, I had almost stopped using ICQ because of that.

I think I now know why random girls have been IMing me recently: they search for people in my age from Germany that talk German or English.

So the workaround (to gaim’s privacy setting “only allow messages by people on my buddy list” not working correctly) is to just remove any information from that stupid ICQ profile.

Hopefully I will now no longer turn up in that stupid ICQ search function, and be left alone by people I don’t know. ICQ is not a friggin dating site!

I mean, I spend much of my time talking to my friends, and of course I enjoy chatting with strangers. But ICQ disrupts me while working, so I really can’t stand it being abused this way.