Friday, May 14, 2010

WLM, you're officially in "creepy program" status.

Okay, I don't normally use WLM chat. (Windows Live Messenger, for those who don't know.) Point of fact, I have had it for a few years now, but took a long break from using it, mainly because I'd used it to talk with certain people, who mainly were not on when I was, so I stopped using it. For about a year.

Now an online friend (who I have met IRL) introduced me to one of his online friends, a girl who lives about 2 hours North of me (which contrasts nicely with the one who lives two hours South of me; is it too much to ask to have a friend in the same city as myself? *laughs*). She uses WLM pretty exclusively. So, I'm back on the program.

And one of the first things I notice is that this program is now offering suggestions to people! Some of which are very creepy.

Yeah, we have two heterosexual females chatting with each other using this program, and it's asking us to find out what our future baby will would like.

O_o

This makes me wonder just what the programmers think people are mainly using their chat program for. Do that many people really use WLM chat for make-out sessions that the programmers think a baby breeding program would be great, regardless of the supposed genders of the people doing the chatting? What happens when you have five people in a group chat?

Currently, it's asking me how old I'll look, which isn't -quite- so creepy, but still not something I'm going to ask it to find out for me.

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