I really annoying when someone start the conversation asking about my personal life . Eg. Are you married?, Do you have any kid? , Age, Do you have BF... or asking me the embarass questions . I'm not interested this kind of topic. Once they start this conversation, I 've to say "Sorry, I'm feel uncomfortable to chat with you".
If this kind of people already added to my msn messenger contact list, I will definately delete/block the contact.

I haven't received embarrassing or annoying questions. I think all my friends I met here are nice people and wouldn't ask whatever embarrassing. As for me, I am here to study, but not to flirt. Though I like politics and not only and like to discuss some global issues with foreign people, to get their opinion and say my one.
But I received proposals "to take care", to flirt and so on, and the proposal to help in transferring inheritance (3000000$) to my bank account and moving to my country (that scammers were, I had deal with them until they demanded to send them 3000 euro, then I switched off my phone and didn't write to them anymore). I guess all these messages have one goal: to steal money. All these senders hadn't chat with me before at all and sent to me their email-addresses that were on yahoo.com domain.
My advice is: don't trust such proposals!
Thanks.

Really it's a good question as the Arabic proverb saying "you touch the wound". There are many annoying questions specially as we are good muslims maybe others don't care. some of those Qs as "How old are you"," Are you married?", "Have you got a boyfriend","Have you fallen in love?", "Do you like sex?". Also when they ask for ID from the 1st time.Then the next disaster is " plz
send me your picture to see if you deserve talking to you"." Can you open your web cam?" and many other trifling questions from some silly guys & girls who want to waste their time in worthless things. Please wake up !!!! Time runs fast.

Annoying questions are all about wrong idea or fantacy of Janapane woman. or i can say west asian woman.I think I don`t need to comment what actually they asked, women here already answered that.
It is absolutly annoying when they care about private things but don`t care to ask. They can`t do anything with the women in their countries and put all upon to the women of overseas.
That makes look themself really bad.

I had this one italk member just get mad at me on chat because, get this, I asked a question that SHE said was perfectly ok in HER culture to ask but not ok in mine. the question was of all things "Are you married?" she got offened telling me she studies culture in university and bla bla bla and this is offensive in western culture. However, I think its an ok question to ask. I was just making conversation. It's like an ice breaker. It's not like I asked her how much money she makes a year. At that point I said to her thank you for your time in chatting with me however I was not looking for a argument just a friendly conversation to improve my language skills. Then I wished her good luck in her language study and said goodbye.

I dont mind people ask me age or email.
just i fell annoy when they are using web cam chating wif me,
showing and doing"SOMETHING" 18sx.
thats is an lesson for me.
i now EVER AND NEVER using webcam to chat with stranger or people in italki.

hi folks
the most annoying thing here at italki are the emails from girls( i think fake profils). They send messages like "hi I´m a lovely sweet girl , i want to know you better , if you want to see my picture send a email to me (everytime the same address: ....@yahoo.com)...bla bla and so on. I never answered those messages, but i think that they wan to send you spam mails.

@CHI: yes you are right I´ve heard it so often from japanese friends that they get very strange and nasty messages from gaijins, that I´m ashamed sometimes to be a european. (even married mothers get those messages..very weird)
bye guys and have a nice week

I think i've got no embarassing questions from italki members^ ^
Because i just refused some friend request after i've read his or her profil.If one says something embarassing or annoying,i will delete that one from my MSN.So it will annoy me no more.
It's also a suggestion.Just delete the one who makes you embarassed or so.

Arabic ppl first that first ask me where I'm from, then they suddenly want to learn Norwegian because they want a Norwegian gf or wife ---- or ppl saying "thank you for being my friend". I hate that. I'm NOT ppl's friend. I'm agreeing to teach Norwegian.

Great question Itlktiv and good answers. The webpage (http://www.italki.com/answers/question/30450-1-1-2.htm), is now a personal guide about how to use italki properly. Some of the called annoying questions mentioned aren't at all annoying to me (about my age, if I am married, for example) it is just one way of starting a conversation, of introducing each other. I don't care if people know that I am 16, 36 or 60 years old. If some of them think I am to young or too old,it isn't my problem, it is the asker problem. But it is important to me to know that such questions are annoying to some people from different backgrounds and cultures.

I've been proposed to. THAT was annoying, not embarassing. I'm not easily embarassed.

Other than that, I don't mind questions: I like being asked about culture/language and I ask people about their language if I'm trying to study it.
MSN questions annoy me when I haven't talked to the person yet.
"Hey."
"Hello."
"MSN?"
"...We haven't talked, how do you know we're even a help to each other?"
"Is that a yes to MSN or a no?"

I had somone adding me and on the invite writting something like;;
"Hey baby i like you, please come too *(cant remeber place)* dont worry i will pay for you,"

+ wrote there phone number and some other things; cant rememeber it now'#
Its not dating site!

well for me asking your age,msn, status.etc its not a embarassing or annoying questions..its just a part of conversation unless your hiding something..maybe some will feel embarassed for they are not truthful for what they are sharing with..just like a story telling a lie..yeah one thing I experience at italki is there was someone who wants to have sex with me and that is really out of line and really annoying..funniest question? till this time have'nt received yet..but If? I'll share it with you...

many

hmm ;).. what probably embarrasses me most in a conversation is when people ask me the same simple questions and when i know what question comes next.