This probably seems trivial to you, but it's just really gotten on my nerves. (:

I go on Skype to talk to the friends that I can't talk to IRL. I'm not swapping postal addresses, credit card numbers, mobile phone numbers with... Nothing like that, I haven't even been on webcam to these people but they have me. So I'm talking to them on Skype, which, for some reason unbeknownst to me, my mother absolutely hates. I really don't see the problem here, at all. I try and see it from both perspectives. I've seen what they look like, I've been friendly with them for months/years and now I'm hearing their voice. It's obvious they're not paedophiles, and it's obvious that I'm not going to give out my address to them - so why the bother, the angriness?

I wouldn't mind but, I've explained all of this to her, and she's still not happy at all with it and tells me to get off it or she's going to cancel the internet when she hears me on it. :/~ I mean, wth, I'm almost eighteen now, she ought to know I'm not dim enough to give out important information about myself or whatever, so what harm can honestly come of it? At all? I even asked her this outright and she had no answer! She even went as far as to say she trusted me, she didn't really like it, but she accepted it (after all, I've been talking to "70 year old paedophiles" for years and she can do jack shit about it). So I go on Skype because my friend wants to congratulate me on my AS results, and she comes in and has a go about the whole business again.

I MEAN, WTH. MAKE UP YOUR MIND. When you can give me a decent answer as to why I shouldn't be having harmless, and most of the time pointless, conversations with a friend, then I'll consider what you have to say. Seriously, what /is/ your problem? She's never trusted me on this thing. It's not even just this, this is just one of factors of her suck. There is a limit to protectiveness. No wonder I want to get the fuck out of here as soon as possible. You're a hypocritical, attention-seeking, lying, embarrassing woman, and I am so moving away for university.

That is all.

Luckily I didn't have to deal with this when I was 18 as skype wasn't even a thought then. However, I see skype as a different form of a telephone (that's free, besides internet fees). Back in the day, people would write letters (not IM and message boards) and would maybe exchange numbers and call them over the telephone (not skype). Now things have gotten a little more advanced and instead of letters and telephones, people are using IM/message boards and skype. I'm on your side with this issue and as long as you're careful and you know the people you're talking with than that's cool. You're 18 and an adult and you can make your own decisons. But i'm not your mother lol.

Are you going away for college? Cause that's one hope of being able to do whatever you want. Of course when I got to college I went a little too crazy, but hey you're only there once

Your college = my university. And yessir I'm so going away for that! It's my only motivation for doing well in college now.

This can be my rant page, I don't feel like making multiple pages of my ranting. XD This one's short and sweet:

AOL, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING. I HAVEN'T HAD INTERNET FOR TWO WEEKS NOW. I KNOW IT WAS PARTLY MY FAULT, BUT I FIXED HALF OF IT AND YOU DON'T HELP AT ALL. I have phoned you four times. You don't know what you're doing and I know that the problem I caused is not the problem I have now. I am very very bored and need to start my coursework, yet don't have the money to keep phoning your premium lines and listening to people I can't understand and when I do understand them, they still don't help. You suck.

My mother has the same thing with MSN. Somthing about it just about it that erks her really badly. I personaly think it's a maternal instinct, protect the nest, you know? But still it gets annoying right?

HELL YES!

I get so pissed off at my mum and usually the only things and i mean ONLY are reading or listening to my music REALLY REALLY LOUD and being able to sing along to it. I HATE ME MUM SO MUCH MOST OF THE TIME, she is just a ranting, raving bitch that thinks she has been through it all, felt it all but- big surprise- SHE DOESN'T KNOW THE HALF OF WHAT GOES ON IN MY LIFE. It's like I'm not even in the house- let alone the universe- when she is working on the computer (she has her own buisness with her partner) AND SHE STILL FINDS THINGS TO NAG ABOUT!

I mean, she doesn't even know that I'm emo. I'm always LAST on her 'To Do' list. I don't spend any time with her because she is always working, always busy and then later she goes "Oh, why didn't you ask to go to the movies today?" or "You should do something on the weekends instead of sitting down and reading."
But I don't want to walk like 3 kms to get to most places and when I tell her this she always says the same f***ing thing, "When I was your age we had to walk everywhere. My mum couldn't drive me around." BUT SHE FAILS TO GET THE IDEA THAT SHE WAS A HELL OF A LOT CLOSER TO EVERYTHING BEFORE WE MOVED AND WHEN SHE WAS LITTLE!!!

*struggles to gain control of anger*