Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Quitting the smartphone
From:    Ogg(21:3/110.10)
Date:    Thu Aug 20, 2026 18:36

Hello Nightfox!

** On Thursday 20.08.26 - 10:42, Nightfox wrote to Adept:

 N> ICQ had a feature where you could fill out a little profile for yoruself
 N> and have it find you a random chat partner online - It was a bit like
 N> having pen pals. I talked to a lot of people that way, and I miss that
 N> sometimes. I wonder if people would still do that if that feature existed
 N> these days..  And I feel like as I've gotten older, it seems more rare for
 N> people to do that - Maybe for people in my age group.  Maybe younger
 N> people would be more apt to hang out and chat with people like that.  It
 N> was definitely a thing I did a lot in my teens and early 20s.

I remember the ICQ random option too.  I may have tried it a few times when I
had a few minutes to kill during a CD burn, a morning coffee, or before going
to bed.

Today, the feature could be easily abused and you could end chatting with an
AI-bot.  What good is that?


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