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Telegram. I HATE IT.
8 years ago
I fucking hate Telegram. It is the worst, most featureless instant messaging program I have ever seen. It is like someone looked at Skype and was like 'hey, what if we did that, but only worse?'. There is literally nothing about Telegram I like. NOTHING. It has no status messages, it has no statuses at all, the 'last seen' is buggy as all shit, it has no support for BASIC INSTANT MESSAGING THINGS like font settings, I can't even believe that! I thought it was awful when Skype started doing automatic adjustments when you put two ** together, like *claps hand* and it turned out bold no matter what you wanted, and strike-throughs were inadvertently triggered by the ~ key. But fuck all that! Telegram just says why even have font options at all? That is probably too confusing and scary for you morons out there on the internet, oh my god can you imagine 'Oh noes my font is in ITALICS HOW DO I FIX IT *calls help desk*'. What the hell. It's so ungodly awful of a program, it is *literally* (and here I use asterisks for emphasis) worse than traditional text messaging. And people are trying to use this to roleplay with me. I have NO idea when you are available or not because you are constantly set as 'available', seriously what the fox who does that? How are there these people who can't go more than five seconds without looking at their mobile or smartphone or tablet or whatever? Are you that self-centered that you think the world is just begging to tell you all the great secrets and you just have to be there all the time to get them? Telegram doesn't even have support for /me messages! This is something that you could do in IRC and MUCKs in the goddamn 90s! And so many of my friends are moving to Telegram, why, WHY? Are you that incapable of having a messenger that has more than one feature besides log in, words go here, enter, lol. Does anything you have to right click scare you? Oh, and it's got fucking 'stickers'. Well whupdy shit, that's totally what I want in my text messenger program, more images spamming everything up and blocking things and they're not even good, what the hell, do you really need a spinning, animating picture up there all the time because you might get distracted and have to actually think?
But that's not the worst of it. OHHHHH NO. Apparently it is so easy to label/report another user on Telegram for harassment/spam that anyone can do it without any proof. Or even a fucking warning. And now suddenly I'm blocked from sending outgoing messages unless someone else sends me a message first. Look, look at this, this is verbatim what the response from Telegram was:
(4/7/2017 10:15:30 AM) Spam Info Bot: Dear Trick Fox,
I’m afraid some Telegram users found your messages annoying and forwarded them to our team of moderators for inspection. The moderators have confirmed that you’ve been sending spam.
Unfortunately, your account is now limited. You will not be able to send messages to people who do not have your number in their phone contacts or add them to groups and channels. Of course, when people contact you first, you can always reply to them.
The fuck. THat's it. I give up. I was just starting to get used to being able to tolerate Telegram by running it through a third-party plugin through Pidgin. AND NOW THIS. Now I can't even fucking send messages.
That's it! I don't need this shit! I am fucking done with Telegram. If you want to fucking contact me, man up and use a real IM protocol or client and not some twitchy 'omg I have to check my phone every two seconds OR I MIGHT MISS SOMETHING OMG AND THE HOSTAGES WILL DIE'. Fuck, I'd even suggest Skype at this point, at least fucking Skype has some basic chat support while it's glitchy as hell!
This doesn't even include the wackier shit like it harvesting through my contacts on my Google phone and adding them to my buddy list in Telegram. No I do not really want to have that guy I once called about a job interview in my Telegram userlist, and I certainly don't want my aunt there, she wouldn't understand sexy giant foxes anyway.
So that's it. No more Trick on Telegram. Sorry for anyone who wished to use that method of communication with me but this is the absolute worst indignity and insult I refuse to partake of. If you want to get in contact with me, note me on FA, Pub me on Eka's, Note me on F-List, hit me up on Skype, hell even AIM I still use that because it does what I tell it to do. The user handle for all of those is TrickTheFox by the way. Hell, send me a text, 313-515-9070. I don't fucking care anything is better than this. Also I am on ICQ now 713879685.
But Telegram?
FUCKING.
DONE.
(yes this means I am deleting my Telegram account, sorry all the cool people I met who only wanted to use Telegram you will just have to contact me a different way or live without the fox because I cannot put up with this shit anymore.)
But that's not the worst of it. OHHHHH NO. Apparently it is so easy to label/report another user on Telegram for harassment/spam that anyone can do it without any proof. Or even a fucking warning. And now suddenly I'm blocked from sending outgoing messages unless someone else sends me a message first. Look, look at this, this is verbatim what the response from Telegram was:
(4/7/2017 10:15:30 AM) Spam Info Bot: Dear Trick Fox,
I’m afraid some Telegram users found your messages annoying and forwarded them to our team of moderators for inspection. The moderators have confirmed that you’ve been sending spam.
Unfortunately, your account is now limited. You will not be able to send messages to people who do not have your number in their phone contacts or add them to groups and channels. Of course, when people contact you first, you can always reply to them.
The fuck. THat's it. I give up. I was just starting to get used to being able to tolerate Telegram by running it through a third-party plugin through Pidgin. AND NOW THIS. Now I can't even fucking send messages.
That's it! I don't need this shit! I am fucking done with Telegram. If you want to fucking contact me, man up and use a real IM protocol or client and not some twitchy 'omg I have to check my phone every two seconds OR I MIGHT MISS SOMETHING OMG AND THE HOSTAGES WILL DIE'. Fuck, I'd even suggest Skype at this point, at least fucking Skype has some basic chat support while it's glitchy as hell!
This doesn't even include the wackier shit like it harvesting through my contacts on my Google phone and adding them to my buddy list in Telegram. No I do not really want to have that guy I once called about a job interview in my Telegram userlist, and I certainly don't want my aunt there, she wouldn't understand sexy giant foxes anyway.
So that's it. No more Trick on Telegram. Sorry for anyone who wished to use that method of communication with me but this is the absolute worst indignity and insult I refuse to partake of. If you want to get in contact with me, note me on FA, Pub me on Eka's, Note me on F-List, hit me up on Skype, hell even AIM I still use that because it does what I tell it to do. The user handle for all of those is TrickTheFox by the way. Hell, send me a text, 313-515-9070. I don't fucking care anything is better than this. Also I am on ICQ now 713879685.
But Telegram?
FUCKING.
DONE.
(yes this means I am deleting my Telegram account, sorry all the cool people I met who only wanted to use Telegram you will just have to contact me a different way or live without the fox because I cannot put up with this shit anymore.)
1.) The fact that I wanted to use it on my pc. I had to give them my phone-number anyways. I installed it, was about to make my furry profile there with avatar and everything... and just a second before I uploaded it, my boss sent me a telegram notice with "Hey, you're using telegram too?"
Somebody I definitely didn't want anything to know about my furry self.
A few collegues followed later.
I was shocked... I don't want any messanger to give out my name or personal info to anybody I haven't told it!
2.) I did like the groups at first...
But as I only use telegram on my computer at home... when I log in, I have about 1000 messages in some of them... impossible to read, I don't have the time for that really...
3.) Annoying people adding me:
Seriously... I've never met so many annoying people in any messanger before.... People who see me in a group add me and then start talking:
"Hi!"
"Hi!!"
"Hi?"
"Hey, whats up?"
"Are you ignoring me?"
When it should be obvious that I'm not online... hell, even if I would have it on my phone, I'd certainly not stop working just to be like "Oh, yes, please, who are you? Let us chat during my work-time...
And if you then start talking with them, they are like (and despite being extremely bland, damn they can shoot out those messages fast):
"How are you?"
Good, you?
"I'm fine myself. Cooking something."
Oh?
"Yeah. Cooking noodles."
Cool...
"Need to get them now."
Interesting...
"Now I'm eating them."
Wow...
"Is it late where you are?"
No (He was clearly from the same time-zone...)
"Are you speaking german? (From somebody who saw my flag-symbol and actually added me in a german group...)
I don't know (decided to act as stupid as him then)
"Oh, I see."
You do?
"What did you eat today?"
"Hello? Still there?" (after 4 minutes of not replying)
Uhm.. pizza...
"Was it good?"
Yes... I actually need to get going now.
"You need to go already? Why?"
Somebody less polite might have said: "Because you piss me off... you're stealing my time... you are annoying as fuck and I certainly don't feel like spending my night with hours of useless small-talk (if you can even call it that?)
4.) So I log out of telegram to stop receiving pointless messages. Then you want to log in again... telegram needs to send you a number on your phone first, which you need to fill in. Why not a password? Phsh...
5.) And then I log in again... and have once more... thousands of messages in my groups... most of them stickers and gif-files (Which by now I already started to hate, especially when people start to bomb each other with them, shooting out gif-messages as a response to others...
And of course more: "Hi?" "Hello!" "Hey there!"'s from the same people, who should clearly see, that I haven't been online for a week! I mean they seem to be on telegram all the time, I think they should have now figured out, that you can see when somebody was online for the last time...
But no... about 10 "Hi?"s everyday?
So... yes... I've learned to hate telegram and pretty much hated it from the first day I was using it... when others told me how awesome it is....
Also there is nothing in there I don't agree with. I am still baffled that people use Twitter for furry smut... I have also heard strange things about Telegram adding people from contacts, so invasive and so weird.
Also sadly you're not the only one I've heard being locked out of Skype. I feel bad about this. Ironically, it appears that AIM is still working with third-party-programs despite apparently saying they were going to end such support at the end of March (and this caused quite a tizzy amongst my friends).
Also, I have a *very* strong feeling that I know who reported me for spam/harassment. Someone very petty and irritating that I recently had a falling out with. I shan't name names, of course, but this leaves a very sour taste in my mouth.
...and I really don't understand this fascination with stickers. This must be one of those 'the kids like it' things, but it all seems very Poochie Dog to me.