So am I the only person who regularly opens up a 'post a comment' window, types out their comment, and then says, "You know, I needed to write that, but there's no reason it needs to be posted," and closes the window without posting?
I do this at least as often on little nominally-complimentary things (often because I'm not convinced that my tone will be interpreted as the humor I intended) as I do on strongly-worded things.
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May 2011
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All the time! I have a whole journal to things I needed to write more than I actually needed to say. :) The "if it's still important in 24 hours, go ahead and repost it" principle's saved me an awful lot of unnecessary drama. :) God. ALL THE TIME. Yeah. Usually if I'm going to post something to the effect of "You're a hopelessly delusional tramp who deserves to be shot in their sleep" I end up deciding not to post it. ya i do it often... if i think .."meh, maybe i shouldn't say anything", or "they won't really care"... this comment brought to you by friendsfriends
I do this all the time. Actually, I do it a lot. But, mostly because I am so new at this sort of thing, and once I have my response typed up, I stop, and realize that the person to whom I am responding more than likely has no idea who the hell I am, and then they will probably wonder why in the world I am reading their journal. And why do I feel the necessity of posting my opinion/response/answer when in the grand scheme of things, what does my measly two cents count for? And, yes, I almost closed this without posting it, but, then isn't that what was commented upon? So, I will leave it. ALL the time. I have a habit of going "no one is going to care about this" or of realizing (in instances where I'm stating an opinion that someone might argue with) that debating the point in question will require more energy than I have, regardless of how I feel about it. I do it all the time, as well. But I suspect its something that a lot of people with any form of common sense does. Y'know what I mean.. That internal sense that 'oh, hey, that's just not really something that needs to be said', or 'that's already been said at least twice before, even if in different ways'. |