Somewhere else around here someone suggested that I should simply add people who I'm interested in, even though we've never actually chatted.
Now I was brought up to say please and thank you, always carry a hankie and ask if I could get down from the table. i've been online for far more years than I care to mention and used to use USENET and all that before anybody even thought of t'interweb.
Back then there was all sorts of etiquette, or as we (somewhat) amusingly called it netiquette around how you behaved such as not typing in all caps, not PMing someone without permission and not doing things like friending without permission either. I guess you think about what happens in real life, you wouldn't just run up to a stranger in the street and poke them after all now would you?
So that brings me back to where I started, and the rest of the comment the other member made,
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11:53 pm Thursday, 17th July, 2014
I don't get the random asterisks |
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1:16 am Friday, 18th July, 2014
I guessed that might be what it was but no idea what they thought I was writing. Judging by some of the blogs there can't be many thing they consider to be outré. |
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1:16 am Friday, 18th July, 2014
That might |
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1:16 am Friday, 18th July, 2014
That |
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1:17 am Friday, 18th July, 2014
Might |
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3:50 am Friday, 18th July, 2014
I agree with you,decent manners and a pleasant attitude make life much nicer for all concerned.The exception I might make is towards those trolls and knuckle-draggers on here who think that making a one-line gauche ( and often illiterate ) to women ,is likely to achieve success. I cringe for some of the ladies having to endure these crass remarks and am sometimes prompted to put such types in their place. |
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10:43 am Friday, 18th July, 2014
Sandy us much the same as it always was. I moved here 15 years ago as it had good transport links to most places. Now I find myself working from home more and more because I'm fed up of constantly sitting in traffic jams. |
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9:31 pm Tuesday, 15th September, 2015
Hello, I liked your profile, detailed, witty, but above all literate. I agree wholeheartedly with you about rudeness, but, sadly, I think that that's the way if the world. I taught in prison just before I retired and most of my students were incapable of anything more than basic courtesies, but I think that most inmates have given up on school long before puberty, and so many of them had no role models at home. I feel that perhaps that's a factor in many of the users on this and other sites. I'm convinced that the more people use digital devices, the less aware they become of other people and other people's needs. Also despite the possibility of accessing texts and images from the greatest libraries in the world all they use the interwebby thingy for is swapping vulgar pictures and kitten photo compilations (not that I've got anything against kittens, you understand). I could rant on for ages, but as I note your eyes glazing over, I realise that I've made my point. I won't go into the discourtesies that a site like this permits crass and thoughtless users to exercise... |
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9:42 am Wednesday, 4th November, 2015
In Bedford xx |
