My mom will IM with me, but she hardly ever signs on, and when she does, she tends to get tired of it. My mother in law, however, is a different story. If she sees the little box at the bottom that says "xxx has signed in" she clicks it, then she'll reply to me "I never do that"... WTF? I ask her what she never does, and she says, "well, you told me to never give out passwords or credit card numbers to people I don't know" or something like that. I say "I didn't IM you. That's what Messenger always says when you start it up." It would be one thing if she did this once, but she has done the exact same thing more than four or five times the last few months. At least it's better than my brother in law (who lives with her)...he thinks we can spy on his online activities, and when he sees us go online, he thinks we might be doing it right then. Errr, I'm not interested in his Ebay transactions or naked mud wrestling, or whatever he thinks we might be watching.