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I had many 'randoms' added on MSN messenger. Usually acquired through everyone inviting his complete contact list to one conversation. We used to discuss all and sundry back then.

I was always slightly more nervous messaging the girls (obvious from their elaborate emoticon-saturated screen names).

Curiously, one of my friends had a contact named 'korea@hotmail.com' who was always online but never replied.

I sometimes wonder how many of them are doing now.

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> Usually acquired through everyone inviting his complete contact list to one conversation.

Man, those were the days... Most of my contacts disappeared one by one (except for 2 which are my oldest friends now!), and it seems like that kind of atmosphere (just adding random people to chat) doesn't exist anywhere anymore, does it?

Smaller Discord servers are close

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Some of my favorite random people I’ve met, I met playing in various games then gave them my Discord channel.

Good, good times.

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