Skype is a wonderful tool. It's a video chat application.
Today I learned what happened when you set your availability to "SkypeMe!"
What happens is that 29-year-old Algerian strangers and see your picture and start IMing you, telling you how "beuatiful" you are. (Seriously, your first language is french. No excuses for spelling "beautiful" wrong, man!) It's a wonderful opportunity to practice your french, but you get truly creeped out. So you lie to Samir the law clerk. It's true you're a student and want to be a photographer and you go to a Christian university, but your name sure isn't Mimi and you certainly don't attend APU.
He wants to add you as a contact. You try to say as nicely as you can that you don't talk to people you never met in person online, that the whole SkypeMe thing was an accident, that you have to go.
I'm okay with people I don't know reading my blog or seeing the pictures I take, but being accosted online by strangers is near the top of my "dislike" list. Anyone looking to Skype to meet girls is a creeper, no matter what. Using a dating website is one thing (3 of my uncles met their wives online), but Skype? That's like MySpace creeping--I deleted mine last summer because I was sick of creepers. If you want to meet people, go out and get a life!
So be careful out in Internetland, boys and girls.
YIKES!!
ReplyDeleteOfficially the funniest story of the year so far. I'm guessing you were up at like 2 AM bored when you decided to push the "Skype me" button?
ReplyDeleteNo, it was around noon and I was supposed to have a Skype date with a friend from back home.
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