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14 Sep 2009, 4:51 pm

I have received only 42 PMs in the two and a half years I've been on Wrong Planet...and I only sent 5 or 6 in that time.
Most of my private correspondence with certain members has been via Skype and email.


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14 Sep 2009, 10:18 pm

poopylungstuffing wrote:
I actually kinda dread it...


I'd actually be excited by the "1 New Message" if I didn't know beforehand that it is probably:

1. A Moderation Unnecessary Negative Attention message
2. Someone asking for insight/enlightenment they're too lazy to think about themselves.
3. Someone starting a lovely conversation never to respond to my reply.
4. Someone being polite and unreadable (in the sense of their true thoughts)
5. Someone's contribution to a thread I started which they're too shy to post on the thread.


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15 Sep 2009, 5:17 am

Yep! I've become obsessed by WP. I guess it is because I've just discovered that there are people out there who are similar to myself, face same sort of dilemmas, have an interest in relating about TOPICS rather than shopping and mundane stuff.
I've only been on WP for a week or two so I guess it is a bit of a "honeymoon period". I'm glad I found some "sane people" finally. :D



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15 Sep 2009, 5:38 am

poopylungstuffing wrote:
I actually kinda dread it...


Similar. It makes me anxious when I see I have a new message (even more anxious when it's unexpected).



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15 Sep 2009, 7:56 am

xalepax wrote:
MathGirl wrote:
Spokane_Girl wrote:
But it drives me crazy when someone sends me a message asking me something and I answer it and I see they have never read it but yet I see they have been on here since. Especially when I reply to someone in a PM and they don't answer me back when I have asked a question. I always wonder if I perhaps said something wrong and it scared that person off. I just don't care and move on figuring they probably weren't for me.

SAME! I hate it so much!


I dont hate it. Its just something random to me which I dont give so much thougths about.
That happened to me on YouTube recently. I got a question and made a long reply but never got any return reply. I have thought about what did I do wrong. If the person didnt find my information useful then it would at least be polite to say thanks for your reply.....
Also I sended once a message to a member here on WP, I believe it was you, Spokane Girl actually. I didnt ask any question, just gave comments in respect for something you had said on the forum but I never got reply. I interpret that you didnt care and moved on and didnt think further about it.

But I dont bother myself about it someone dont want to reply. I think its their problem and I dont take it personal as Im talking very random with people online and I dont have any real friends. If it was a friend whom I knew closer I probably would worry about the lack of a reply in a complete diffrent way...


^ This type of thing does really bother me. It's very rare that I get a pm, or send one. When I do send one it's usually because I have specific info that I thought might be useful to someone, but I didn't want to hijack a thread by posting it on the forum. It bothers me when they don't even take a moment to reply with a "Thanks for the info" or something to that effect. I could understand not replying if it was a really social pm that required a lot of reciprocation, but how hard is it to just say thank you? I'd never do that someone else, so I guess that's why I don't understand when others do it to me. I can get all anxious worrying if I had made an inappropriate comment, or some sort of social blunder that I'm unaware of.