Every few months I’ll log in on a PC and have a bunch of messages about comments. Oops. I should say, used to. Won’t be going back.

I wrote a comment outlining my very specific and somewhat surprising immigration situation, and someone asked me if I would mind answering some questions because they were by chance writing an article about people who fit my exact situation.

I gladly would have answered whatever questions they had, but they asked me via that dumb fucking chat function, so I only saw a year after they sent me the message.

The chat system is there so nerds can hit up the hot chick who posted a painting in /r/pics asking for feet pics

I used it a couple of times to reach out when I felt like a more personal approach would be helpful.

Used RiF exclusively, do didn’t even had the option (thankfully) to use it.

Of course. The 12 year olds had to send you a death threat somehow?

Seriously, every time I got one, I checked the account and it was someone asking OP models how they are doing and posts on /askreddit like “How to meet girls?”.

Dude, there are so many hot chicks from my area trying to hook up in chat. You won’t believe it!

Or trying to keep arguing with me after I’ve given up on replying to them.

So it would be like taking out all the leaflets, ads, sales flyers and alert sheets from your local newspaper and throwing them in the trash without looking at any of them. In a small way, I always feel bad when I do that to my paper … such a huge waste of paper that only a small fraction of people actually look at.

I only got one legit message as well. The rest was spam and one was disturbing enough that it kept me up for a bit

My messages went missing a few weeks ago, although 2 remain. Not sure why.