From Lewis Powell comes this hilariously sad tale of deception and deceit with IM over a 4 year period.

Now, I don’t have the best memory in many respects, but associating a semi-random string of characters with a person I know to an arbitrary degree of familiarity, is something I am particularly bad at. Hell, I can hardly remember my screenname, let alone someone else’s. As a result, its not entirely uncommon for me to receive an instant message from a mystery name, and not know who it is.

Gotta love geeks and their wonderful ability to interact with strangers.