いただき FORUMS - Itadaki

Pardon the lil rant/vent/bitchfest I'm about to have a bit right now, but it's moments like this where I question myself about how open I put myself on the web.

Today apparently during a game, I get a friend request from some person I don't know, nor ever recall seeing the SN during any of the matches i've played. Well being the nice guy I am, I accept this person's request thinking "Oh it's probably someone I've played with before. No biggie" Wow how ignorant I must have been for that moment.

So apparently the person immediately begins talking with me, but already I get a little bit of odd vibes from him. Like when you read the way a person types and can tell they are either a bit not right in the head or really young. Or both. But of course, the chance giver I am, I brush it off and try to talk with this newcomer. At first things seem a bit okay, but then it gets weird. He starts asking me if I happen to have a copy of the game I'm currently playing (Note this is all on STEAM, so you can tell who's doing what at the time), and now even though I do own my own copy I have no real clue how I'm supposed to just give it to some random stranger. So I tell him I don't (which is partially true since I don't have a copy I can just give away), thinking he might just say 'ok' and be on his way.

Of course not,naive me strikes yet again. This persondoesn't seem to believe like I'm telling the truth and starts getting testy with me. Apparently he looked though my list of games I own on my STEAM profile and believes I am just loaded with games to just give him. He starts pushing it by telling me, no, demanding that I should give him some of my stuff that I supposedly own. Or at least buy it for him since I supposedly could afford to get 31 games. For the record only one out of that set I actually did buy. All the rest was actually gifts given to me by my close friends in our own lil clan group.

I try to explain to this guy that I do not have a thing to give him, and I have no reason to for someone I just met. This gets him aggrivated and he even starts cussing me out and telling me what a bad liar I am, that I actually owe him stuff. Now at this point, I'm trying to still be nice because the last thing I need is to randomly enrage possible psychopaths. So I'm pretty scared and try to reason with him long enough until he says he is going to be right back. After which I block him immediately.

Well now that little dilemma has got me wondering if I should just throw around my contact info or keep it out in the open like that. I'm pretty worried that the next time I accept somebody I don't know that it might be worse. Do you think it's a smart idea to just block yourself over a bad incident, or is taking a precaution a good thing? I dunno it's really confusing me and I think I might as well try to hide myself from strangers like that.

I've been chatting online and kept my contact info open for a long time, about 8 years or so. But now I keep my information private and only give it out to people I want to talk to. The reason being that I started to get random and strange people who either made me uncomfortable, were incredibly rude, or only added me to ask me for free art.

That said, I think it's good to just keep contact info to yourself or create an account that's open that you go on once in a great while. At least that's what I do. And don't be afraid to block ignorant and rude people.

Well I went ahead and set most of my stuff to private. Just sometimes I feel a bit bad for blocking people unless it's an extreme circumstance. Somehow I feel more like the jerk blocking the rude person.

Ghostbane wrote:Well I went ahead and set most of my stuff to private. Just sometimes I feel a bit bad for blocking people unless it's an extreme circumstance. Somehow I feel more like the jerk blocking the rude person.

Well, I believe that person has had their chance with you, and that it was good that you blocked them. The internet is full of rude people, so just wish that you don't encounter any of them again.

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I've had to go on private in Left4Dead cuz without a mic and a tendancy to play Zoey, everyone thinks I'm a girl.

I am "hit on" so much these days online. Geeze people, go outside.

Variis wrote:I am "hit on" so much these days online. Geeze people, go outside.

According to L4D, outside the "saferoom" is where all the zombies are D: