Bodies Piling Up

I have multiple im accounts on various services; some are for work and some for pleasure.  You have to have accounts with all of them, because you never know what service a contact uses and having 2 minutes to signup for an account before a potential business opportunity closes isn’t the time.  Most people tend to use one and just one, that’s another reason.  I was going through my lists of buddies and I found quite a lot of them are people that have either stopped using those accounts (cause I never see them logged on) or they have themselves set to invisible to me.  Sure it happens, but almost all of them are ex’s of mine whether they be former friends or girlfriends.  I like to think that people can be friends after they break up, but looking at my buddylist you apparently can’t.  Sure I could delete them and just forget about them, like they have about me.  Although sometimes the screenname is the only thing you have left of a person, some relationships are short and you don’t exactly have anything to remember them by; so a screenname becomes the only memento that you have left of them.  I do use Pidgin at least so I only need one client instead of 4 or 5, plus you can run multiple accounts at the same service; the only downside is that advanced features that are client specific are left out.