ICQ snobbery

Believe it or not, there are people on ICQ that look down on people


with bigger ICQ numbers than themselves. Some will even refuse to speak to people with an ICQ number bigger than a certain


number. It’s not unusual either to find people trying to sell their

low ICQ numbers to make money. As a guide, if you have a sub

1,000,000 number you are pretty hot stuff and obviously a seasoned

Internet veteran. It’s rare to meet people like that these days though.

There are whole books devoted to ICQ and its use, but the details

on their web site are enough to get you up and running.

ICQ

A few years back it became very hip to give out your email address

instead of your phone number. These days even the humble email

address has almost given way to the swapping of ICQ numbers.

No Internet dating book would be complete without discussing

ICQ, and with over 100,000,000 users word wide it’s no wonder.

I’ll say up front that if you don’t have ICQ then do yourself and

your chances a real favour and surf on over to www.icq.com and

get it for yourself.

You can’t win against trolls

It’s not uncommon to end up in a verbal insult match in a chat


room. Some people, called ‘trolls’, are just there to provoke, and

they have nothing better to do than insult you till you leave.

The best way to handle trolls is to completely ignore them. It

may seem tempting to come back with a smart reply that you are

sure will shut them up once and for all, but it never works. They are

chat room veterans, and are guaranteed to have a razor sharp

comeback for everything before you have started to type your next

line. Ignore them, and leave them to die in their virtual world.