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ICQ Universe

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the crossing-beyond-over-hyped dept.

scubacuda writes "PC World: ICQ Universe (now owned by AOL) will soon be the first to offer social networking services on an IM platform. One has to wonder what types of legal issues might surface as social networks (particularly those unsecured) become more popular. For example, could being an IM buddy with someone later come back and haunt you?"

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  1. ICQ Universe by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny
    With a name like that, I'd expect to logon by typing "By the Power of Greyskull!". (Skellitor might explain the haunting part.) Or start some quest to boldly go where no one has gone before!

    Universe does not exactly suit the cozy pub atmosphere I'd be looking for.

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  2. Invite only. So now we are not invited to computer by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Funny

    Invite only. So now we geeks are not invited to computer parties as well? Dang.

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  3. Re:I use irc, that's all I need. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I use a telephone. Works fine. What's all of this IRC stuff? Sounds lame.

  4. Re:what a nonsense... by selderrr · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's ridiculous. Chances are far bigger that he'd meet someone on AIM who will later in his life save his life or donate a million bucks or teach him how to basket or marry him or drive him to the station every wednesday or ... whaveter...

    The point is that for one chance in a million (yea yea, throw me a terry pratchet), you're giving up a thousand possible beneficies.

    Go live with the monks in tibet, dude. And stab your eyes out, cut your ears off and eat your tongue for god forbid you might one day in tibet stand in a public loo pissing besides the next osama, for which the feds will spend a billion bucks to haunt you and chain your bollocks to guantanamo beach rocks.

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  5. Irony Meter by handy_vandal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thus typed by an anonymous coward. I'd better switch my irony meter to a higher scale.

    Dude, this is SlashDot -- you're gonna max out your irony meter ....

    -kgj

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  6. Re:A lot of things will come back to haunt us by craXORjack · · Score: 2, Funny

    You make a very good point. However if George Bush Jr can snort cocaine yet be elected President 25 years later when his party advocates mandatory prison for drug users, then I have to think there are other factors much more important to running for office. Such as: does your daddy control the CIA, are you rich, are you easily manipulated by daddy's business associates, do you have no respect for life, etc.

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