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ICQ happened to figure something out - girls wrote boys as well, I remember getting messages from strangers as often as initiating those. Anyway, it was more a
by guard-of-terra 10y ago
ICQ happened to figure something out - girls wrote boys as well, I remember getting messages from strangers as often as initiating those.
Anyway, it was more about talking than about romantic relationship. Not many people expected to ever meet their virtual friends.
You can definitely ruin that, for example, if you do not randomize well enough and a small subset of user base gets too much attention.
- flukus 10y agoYou sure those girls were girls? Remember, this was the internet back when men were men and women were men and children were FBI agents.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoWomen were comparably more fond of ICQ and even now it's them who still hold on to it. It's very unlike the IRC sausage party. I think you would more likely to run into a girl pretending to be male. Also, I have this feeling that it's much harder to disguise your gender in Russian than it is in English. First of all, everybody has it as first language with all its nuance and can guess a lot of things about their penpal. Discussions are also deeper, making it harder to fake.
- digi_owl 10y agoFrankly that seems to have never changed.
- ivan_gammel 10y agoI'm pretty sure, because I actually met some of them. Have few old friends now from that times.