I have a thought. Why do people put links in their WLM names? Or better yet…why do they put it in their PMSG?

Actually, I don’t mind links that much, but I guess the question I’m really asking is…why do people put youtube links or any links where the url is defined through a hash in their nicknames/personal message.

For the people that place it in their nickname:

  1. Your nickname does NOT need to be longer
  2. Nobody wants to see a line of underlined blue every time you send a message
  3. You do realise that people will have to:
    a) Start a convo with you to copy/paste the link
    b) “Rename” your nickname in order to copy/paste the link
  4. If you want to let everybody know of this website…just send it to the people you think that care…

For the people that place it in their personal message:

  1. Are you aware that it’s not possible to click on the link?
  2. Are you aware that only those bored out of the friggin minds will bother typing it into their browser?
  3. Are you aware that it’s not really a “personal message”?

Thankfully, with Messenger Plus! Live you can easily open urls in nicknames/pmsg by using the “open url” function.

On a side note, I actually enjoy opening random links people put in their nicknames/pmsg I just don’t know if they understand that the number of people actually opening them is extremely low.