ICQ

I'm never lurking in ICQ because I suppose such behavior is kind of a bad taste in any relationships. However, sometimes people have to lurk for escaping consequences of their presence on line. Some people think that if your ICQ-icon is green you must talk with them about their cats, boyfriends and working duties. This is a disease of first-year-Internet-users who can’t be full of one conversation and need to talk with many people at once catching everybody in their friend-list. But it seems very strange and oppressive when a person with ten-years-Internet-user-history begins to put up his/her problems in IM or e-mails. I believe all problem should be solved privately off-line, but not into the Internet Messenger.