"You can't add yourself to contacts" -- But Why?

"You can't add yourself to contacts" -- But Why?

Every IM has a feature that you can add yourself as an IM contact and keep. It may sound meaningless though but has subtle latent purposes that it serves.

1. Quickly test the status messages and quotes
2. A ethical conscious message that 'I am my best friend' to reinforce the self-confidence in us.

Skype seems to be a thorn in this path by throwing an error like below.