Public shaming

[elfs]

Well, that was interesting. While I'm working away, I suddenly get an IM from someone I've never heard from before. I have no idea who they are, or where they're from, or what. The icon is some animated Bratz character with the logo "punk girl looking 4 punk guy", the [info] tells me nothing at all. She (I'm assuming it's a she) starts peppering me with questions like "Who are you?" and "Do you know Melanie?"

I was non-comittal to any of the questions, generally just giving my name and stuff. And then:

(12:22:13) Elf Sternberg. It's my real name.
(12:22:32) If you don't know anyone by that name, then you're just some person across the internet.
(12:22:44) Now, now. Watch your language, young lady.
(12:23:25) foul-mouthed brat: I DONT HAVE TO YOU MOTHA FUCKA BC U AINT MY MOMMA
(12:23:58) Maybe not. But you'll never get anywhere in the world acting like that. It's rude and it makes you unattractive.
(12:24:28) foul-mouthed brat: im only 12 and i can cuss bitch!
(12:24:49) How sad that you can't tell the difference between "can" and "should."
(12:25:23) Anyway, I think your friend messed with you by sending you my AIM tag.
(12:26:21) foul-mouthed brat: shut the fuck up and leave me alone before i shoot a cap up yo ass
(12:26:51) Yawn. Goodbye, child. I'm not interested in your powerless rants.
(12:27:22) foul-mouthed brat logged out.


I then banned her from my AIM list. Interesting that she should suggest I "shut the fuck up and leave me alone" when she's the one who first IM'd me. I'm still trying to figure out what the whole exchange was about. Part of me has this niggling notion that it was a cop phishing for on-line perverts; if so, he was barking at the wrong tree.

And part of me actually hopes it wasn't legit. Because if it was, I despair for the manners and morals of the next generation. But then, doesn't everyone?

Comments

[secanth.livejournal.com]

I sometimes wonder if allowing small children to use chat programs is such a great idea. (grin) Espically ones who apparently have no sense at all. Like you, I hope it *isn't* a reflection of the next generation...

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

either way it's FUBAR.... if the fuzz doesn't have anything better to do than to harass you and try to provoke pedophilia, we're screwed as of this moment; if the kid was real, then we're screwed in about six years.

I'm not sure which is worse. Perhaps the former; evolution may remove the latter from the gene pool.

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

You get *all* types online. Lately I've been getting all sorts of offers from Ukrainian women. They usually get told they are violating ICQ TOS and ignored (ICQ's version of banning).

So how are you liking HL2? Gotten eaten by the crabs yet....or the "dog zombies"?

[hastings1066.livejournal.com]

I *hated* the dog zombies (well I thought they were cool, but for the fact that they attacked me ;)

I really need to get back to building a dodgeball map...