It’s happened. I know it would eventually, I was a time bomb ticking silently in an explosive shell. Today, it finally happened. I blew up. I am normally one to be fairly calm and passive, even when I’m very irritated or mad. Today, one kid just… put me over the edge. I dumped all that built up frustration on him. He didn’t deserve it all, I feel bad now, the nail he pulled was the last one holding me together.

Yes, here we are again. The topic of people asking me for help for, well, everything. My free time these days is measured in minutes, I have so many things I really want to do! I hate it when total strangers just… grr… back up. have a few friends, people I enjoy speaking with. They will sometimes ask computer questions which I will happily answer. It’s the total strangers and people whom I don’t hear from for months in a row that think I somehow owe them computer help when they IM me out of the blue that really irritate me. If I kindly push them away, they get agitated and start shooting their fiery darts of insults at me. What a terrible person I am! I refused to walk someone through how to install windows whom I hadn’t heard from since the 6′th grade.

I usually find it hard to say no though. I at least try to help lots of people when I can. It’s iffy. I don’t enjoy it, but I don’t really hate it. It’s somewhat in the middle. A neutral action that does little more than waste time. Once in a blue moon I’ll get a “thank you” or “I really appreciate it”. I usually get the “don’t try explain it, just walk me through it the whole way” and when I refuse, they unleash their own stupidity in insulting me for not wasting my day walking them through their newbieness because they’er too lazy to google it themselves. It’s this frustration that builds up over time -_-

I finally decided. I mentioned it before, the possibility at least. I will no longer accept ANY tech support or computer questions over chat, irc, or aim. Only email. Why? Email is detailed and exact, people put more thought into it, email takes a minute to send, people will only email me if it’s important, and email makes you wait so you’re more inclined to use google instead. Yes, people, you and I have the exact same Google. The people that IM me with questions are not as incompetent as they think they are (with few exceptions). They are simply lazy. If you have computer questions, email me. If you IM me… you will receive the built-up wrath of the disgruntledly anonymous tech support guy.

If you think I have nothing to do in my day; no projects I want to work on, no homework I have to complete, no goals I try to achieve, and no people I want to spend time with, and your stupid IM computer questions are not a problem since I have nothing else I cherish more than helping strangers over IM… get a life

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