Yep...sad but true. I peeked at wikked's thread in international and some of the stuff is unreal. Most of it, just because of her pic. Is like feeding time in the zoo sometimes. Will probably take a degree to figure that out, maybe that's just human nature and that's it.
Have you ever thought you were making a connection with someone, only to find that you are not the only one? Not the only one getting the emails, flowers, letters, phone call's, etc. Someone that leads you to believe you might have found someone in which a mutual connection was ignighted, but on their end, they are doing the same thing with many others? How do you/did you deal with that? How do you know if you're being played or not?
This is what I have been saying and I agree with what people are posting as responses..... Just don't understand why I guess. Why do people feel the need to treat another in such a manner, especially when they don't even know a person, or anything in realtion to who and what they are as a human being.
Human nature tells us to both.... be seen and heard but it doesn't always work that way. For some it's choice, while on the other hand it is perception. Often people's perception (valid or not) of someone and what they are trying to communicate gets lost in translation. It can be intentional or a simple miunderstanding. Sometimes a person is not even given a chance to be heard or seen, due to jaded perceptions. Those that are seen and heard and stand to express themselves are at times criticized. Other's stand and express themselves and cower into a corner as soon as someone tells them they are wrong.
- people who drive a million miles with the left turn signal on but then turn right. - people who can't pronounce my first or last name, and I have known them since grade school, lol. - waiting in line to get cash from the ATM and just as it's my turn, the ATM boys in the van come and shut her down for maintenance!
Thanks for posting in Canadians Prof. and Happy B'day. Are ya legal yet?
Are you saying that it is not a random, one of, and that people who do that will continue to do that, over and over? When you say pro-active, do you mean speaking up, expressing yourself, or, defending yourself? To me, they are all different. I would really question why one would have to defend themselves, on a dating site no less, from insults, names, ignorant emails and the like, from total strangers only because of their pic, profile or an opinion they post that another doesn't agree with. I guess it's hard to keep in the spirit of fun, when things get heated and human nature being what it is....
I like that...."a glass full of misunderstanding". Good descriptive for a lot of what is said. Especially when done in fun and one twists it and makes it not so fun. I still don't understand how people complain someone didn't answer their email or reply to a flower, yet when you do and you're not interested, they flip out. Can't win for losing.
The world wide web site, hence they call it the w.w.w. and people from all over the world are in here and bring many different opinions and views and takes on what is said. An example would be, something we say commonly here in Canada, and in fun, is taken as an insult or ignorance elsewhere. It can flip the other way also. Something commonly used and funny at the other side of the globe is an outright insult here.
I see that the Int'l has a thread up pretty much expressing somewhat these same thoughts wikked. So, it's not only in Canada that we ask, why oh why..... think thats the thread name.
I agree wikked. Not speaking about any particular thread or person. To hear if others have an opinion or thought on the topic in general. Yes, it gets heated in here, with so many differences of opinions, cultures and upbringings but thats what makes it a great place.
What doesn't make it great is when people send really ignorant emails to others, name call and sht like that, towards people they don't even know. Does someone have the right to insult and name call someone for not being interested in them, when they replied to the initial flower/email saying thanks but no thank you (at least acknowledging you got it, being polite)? Because you are not interested in someone, and politely tell them, does that give them the right to say and do ignorant stuff? Does anyone have the right to tell another not to post what they have to say versus a select few who can post whatever they want?
I have seen, and wonder why a thread is posted which invites others opinions and views on a topic, or just to banter back in forth, and a person is told not to express their opinion if another did not agree with or like a person's opinion, or simply didn't like their profile. Bear in mind, a profile is just that, not the real being of the person and all that they are, standing before you.
Was just wondering the general thoughts on posting. Is it hit or miss? A popularity contest? Is it the pack mentality? Can someone use a thread as an opportunity to attack a person who posted? Does stuff get lost in translation? Fun misinterpreted as not being nice? Or, is it all just good old fun? Am off to work now, but wanted to ask this of fellow Canadians....have a great day all!
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RE: 2 Word Add On Game (continued)
certificate in-the-mail, ha, take that.