AIM and GTalk Chatting

I make my AIM and GTalk usernames available for anyone to get on practically all my sites and social profiles. I make it as easy as possible for anyone who is interested to contact me, whether that be via email, twitter, chat, facebook, etc. I accept all Facebook friend invites, LinkedIn requests, Twitter followers, (although I have behind on keeping up with following everyone back on twitter), etc. Basically if you want to connect, I'm down to chat and message back and forth. Always keeping the conversation going.

However, I have to put my foot down and put a stop to the AIM maddness.  I have found recently that I am chatting with a lot of people I don't even know on AIM. Great, fun conversations, but it is too time consuming. Already being distracted by conversations on Twitter, Facebook and my blog are enough.  I think I am going to have to stay logged off of AIM for most of the day and only keep open Bonjour to chat with people in the office. I'll jump on AIM when I know I have some time to chat, otherwise peeps are going to have to reach me by Direct Messaging me on Twitter or Facebook, or of course, sending me an email.

Comments

[Dan]

Most people I know can't sign-on to AIM at work because they get bombarded with IMs, so (even though I'm sure you're wicked popular) this isn't unheard of.

Luckily, you're not exactly hard to reach.

[michael Puhala]

Typo:

"but it is becoming way to time consuming"

Should say: "way too time consuming..."

Like your tweets...

[Bes]

Thank you for reminding me to add you on AIM.

[Clintus]

You could always appear offline, that way no one would know you're there and you could chat with those you wanted to.

[Jessica]

Is this your way of putting your foot down?? Gosh, you're so tough! heehee. Give the kittens a big smooch for me!

[Rainbow Mind]

I hear ya completely . It is a constant issue!!