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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Frisky SKeleton on June 28, 2010, 12:08:37 am
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no this isn't a topic for posting your chatlogs! this is a topic about chatlogs! do you keep em? how long do you keep em for?
i'm making the topic because i realised i have like 5 years worth of chatlogs probably jam packed full of incriminating or embarassing conversations and i was wondering whether to ANIHILATE THEM or i don't even know what
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I don't keep any chat logs ). I sometimes think I should so I can grep through em for contradictions in what people are saying now and what they said a decade ago for some kind of total slam dunk told-ya-so.
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I don't even have any chats to log
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gotta keep them chats logged
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i log everything because everyone is out to get me
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My logs are printed on acid-free paper, and carefully filed away in black binders, which I place in chronological order upon rows and rows of bookshelves. I spend my free time meticulously dusting the spines, and airing out the pages so they don't develop mildew.
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i log everything because everyone is out to get me
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I don't keep them and have never kept them. The only possible use that I would see for chatlogs in the first place is capturing those wonderful MysteriousWanderer quotes that pop up every now and then, but since everyone else was logging IRC chats, this didn't prove to be necessary after all. I format my computer and move around too much to keep those sort of things lying around somewhere anyways. And I'm not going to make like a CHATLOG BACKUP or something, because that's just fucking stupid.
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i do very little chatting outside of maybe facebook but I remember I always told my chat software to not keep logs. IDK its just weird to me, like recording all of your personal phonecalls and archiving them by date or something
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I only record the conversations where I do more than just breathe into the receiver. So I don't record my calls.
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I tend to log them, because I tend to have some cool conversations with people and it's fun to read through them later on.
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i have my msn log chats always.
they're handy for reference and/or entertainment.
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I should log my stuff just to hear how insane it sounds out of the original context
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i would never knowingly talk with someone I knew was keeping logs/recordings of whatever I said. that shit's creepo to the maxxx
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i log and read them. so the next time i talk to that person, there's the impression i remember eveything we talked about
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lets have a discussion.
*carefully writes the date and time on a tiny cassette, puts it in a handheld voice recorder and presses the record button*
...so how was your day today?
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i keep em because i like looking back at them as fun memories.
this is kind of a strange topic though. i think it would have been better if it was a "post funny chatlogs" topic.
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i keep em because i like looking back at them as fun memories.
this is kind of a strange topic though. i think it would have been better if it was a "post funny chatlogs" topic.
nah because it would have been nothing but people posting really unfunny MSN chatlogs with their friends nobody here knows, that's what those topics always became
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I don't save them, sometimes I think I should start just to keep track of youtubes/bands/movies that come up in the conversation but it would still feel kind of creepy. Also when I looked through the folder to see if there were any there I found out I have a program called Windows Frotz installed for some reason.
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I don't save them, sometimes I think I should start just to keep track of youtubes/bands/movies that come up in the conversation
this is basically why i log my msn conversations
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i would never knowingly talk with someone I knew was keeping logs/recordings of whatever I said. that shit's creepo to the maxxx
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i'm not sure why logging them is creepier than remembering what was said - i'm talking about text logs not voice recordings. compiling them into biometric data is probably a bit creepier, especially if you feed it into AI programs so you can trial your next conversations in advance.
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i would never knowingly talk with someone I knew was keeping logs/recordings of whatever I said. that shit's creepo to the maxxx
it's 2010 brah and we're on the inter'net'
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i'm not sure why logging them is creepier than remembering what was said - i'm talking about text logs not voice recordings. compiling them into biometric data is probably a bit creepier, especially if you feed it into AI programs so you can trial your next conversations in advance.
forum posting is different from a one-on-one conversation and posts on here are pretty much intended to be retained on a web server and broadcast to the community/public. i shouldn't have to point this out to you i think you're smart enough to know this
Keeping logs of conversations without some sort of prior understanding/arrangement to do so, text or voice, is just odd to me especially if it's just to sort of to archive and keep on someone's hard drive for no particular reason.
it's 2010 brah and we're on the inter'net'
I haven't really "chatted" with anyone for years now except for maybe amark or occasionally dipping into IRC, but even that was done through my browser on a java/flash thing so I wasn't even really aware that a lot of these programs logged conversations by default. Not that anything I say on the computer is particularly important, incriminating, or sensitive but as someone who's not really into chattin', the whole logging of everything unless both parties request the software not to just puts me at a greater distance from wanting to use these programs.
:welp: Frankly I don't think I could have a normal conversation with someone while knowing I was being recorded. Maybe it's some kind of weird neurosis on my end, idk.
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I think it's normal. chat logs are typically a little different tho since you're not really recording them with any intent unless you think something someone said was hilarious and the ability to access the log itself is more of an afterthought than something you're conscious of at the time of the conversation.
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One time like ten years ago I was chatting with my friend via MSN and said some pretty mean shit about a girl who had just dumped me, and when I went to his house I found it logged on his computer for later high-school drama causing purposes! I deleted it and the next time I was over he had RESTORED IT FROM THE RECYCLE BIN because he really wanted to use it against me later (of the 100+ conversations we had he literally had saved only this one) so I ctrl+deleted it, I hope he didn't have an off-site backup!
His computer was so slow that as it ctrl+deleted he was walking back from the bathroom and I swear to Christ it was like a high-tension spy scene in the worst spy movie ever made
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forum posting is different from a one-on-one conversation and posts on here are pretty much intended to be retained on a web server and broadcast to the community/public. i shouldn't have to point this out to you i think you're smart enough to know this
yeah i was mostly being a dick
i'm a super pack-rat when it comes to most anything and i've realised that i don't ever just stroll through them and reminisce or anything so they're much more of a liability than anything else. now that i've amassed them though it seems like a waste! there's a lot of really witty/clever conversations!
also what about e-mails? if i've ever deleted a personal e-mail it would've been by accident. also handwritten letters.
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One time like ten years ago I was chatting with my friend via MSN and said some pretty mean shit about a girl who had just dumped me, and when I went to his house I found it logged on his computer for later high-school drama causing purposes! I deleted it and the next time I was over he had RESTORED IT FROM THE RECYCLE BIN because he really wanted to use it against me later (of the 100+ conversations we had he literally had saved only this one) so I ctrl+deleted it, I hope he didn't have an off-site backup!
His computer was so slow that as it ctrl+deleted he was walking back from the bathroom and I swear to Christ it was like a high-tension spy scene in the worst spy movie ever made
idk creeping through yr. homie's chatlogs is really bad and basically the biggest reason why I hate the idea of them being logged. That said, I think you deleting them was a pretty justifiable thing to do and another reason why I am not a fan of chatlogz. You should be able to have conversations with with your friends and say stupid shit without having to worry about it coming back to haunt you.
guess thats why i just avoid the damn chat programs to begin with :)
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yeah i was mostly being a dick
i'm a super pack-rat when it comes to most anything and i've realised that i don't ever just stroll through them and reminisce or anything so they're much more of a liability than anything else. now that i've amassed them though it seems like a waste! there's a lot of really witty/clever conversations!
also what about e-mails? if i've ever deleted a personal e-mail it would've been by accident. also handwritten letters.
emails and texts I have different feelings about, and I think it's just the nature of the medium and the fact that I know full well while using them that they're going to be stored in an account/phone doesn't bother me. Chatting is just entirely different to me because it's much more of a real-time conversational off-the-cuff sorta thing where part of the enjoyment is not having to carefully choose your words and shoot the shit with a bro, programs logging the chat just add an unnecessary and undesirable element to the whole thing that completely ruin the concept for me.
it's entirely a psychological issue on my end, I'm pretty aware of that, but society and culture is so fucking bananas these days that I'm pretty sure these kinds of quirks are just hiccups of sanity and reminders that I'm still human.
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I've kept every chat log I've ever had with my gf/fiancée since we switched to Google, and have even used them as evidence of our relationship for my visa. Chat logs can be useful!!
But I don't have any GW ones. I relied on Krin and I think ramirez for those.
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I don't save them as they are kind of creepy. If this was totally common practice then it'd be the same as being recorded every time you spoke to someone. I'd prefer not to have to watch what I say to people I'm conversing with, online or offline.