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.

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.
 
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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.