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Golly... I didn't realize that people considered it poor sense or poor manners to IM somebody. I know that I've traditionally tried to use IM's to sound out the waters before writing a full email -- just to see if there's any interest there.

Understand that from my vantage point, I've seen women complain about men whose emails don't contain enough content; but then I spend half an hour putting something thoughtful together and I never get a response to that either.

I am not, of course, saying that every woman is like that, but my median experience discourages an over-investment of effort in an introductory email.

To answer the original question, it's hard to say. I'd rather know for certain that somebody doesn't want to talk to me, but I'd REALLY prefer to have them dash off a few sentences letting me know that. "I'm sorry, but I prefer not to chat live with somebody before I've exchanged emails with them" is a lot kinder than "Ms. Smith has chosen not to chat with you."

HELLO MEN!! I much prefer an email at first!!

I'm usually not inclined to accept IMs unless I have already established some type of friendship with someone.

Yeah, its like someone coming to your door!

lol... They keep on knocking... you either yell "Go Away"... or sit there with the radio blasting and they keep knocking, not taking the hint lol

mry i can trying it says im blocked j/k

LOL, I just say trick or treat

I think I am going to ty and IM everyone in this post and see what they do

They should create some other responses like:

Are you kidding, Oh hell no, Gimme a break, Do I know you,

I thought I blocked you, etc

lol that would be funny... angel

I think I'll bring it up to Mike

Excellent idea Angelsing!!!