Ooh i'm going to have a mean ranty answer :D [not mean at you m'dear ♥]
People seem to comment most when I post pictures, and as much as I love that, i'm insulted that they don't comment as much as that on my text-posts also. I don't think it's because what i'm writing is boring, because I don't think it is, I think it's because they're lazy! I usually write a huge text post when I get back from spending time with Ste, because I assume my friends would quite like to know what i've been doing, but now i'm feeling much less inclined to do so, because unless people are commenting to show they care, I know I had a great time, so why waste my time on a huge entry?
So in my experience people will respond most to pictures, something funny, something easy to read or something that's really pissed them off. Infact I added a friend from a forum the other day, although i'm not sure how it'll work out, because she's anti-Catholic & a feminist, and i'm a proud Catholic & anti-feminist. She had me completely & utterly insulted in the very first post I read of hers, she was Catholic-bashing again, being utterly disrespectful! I tried to show my disapproval [she knew how i'd feel] politely; But we've just had to agree to ignore each others' posts if they anger us, as we've already torn each others hair out several times on two forums already; So much so that my Ste actually joined the forums to support my arguements!
*breathe*
Anyhow, about the timing thing; I seem to get no or few comments all day & then a flood of them between 9 & 11pm GMT. It seems to be the optimum time when most people are online despite differing timezones.
I personally try to comment on most things, because comments make what you're saying feel worthwhile & they make you feel appriciated [to recieve comments]. At the moment i'm lagging though, because i'm away so much; It's hard to comment on a missed 200 posts :/
I'm not sure if most of this was cohearent or relevant :|
It's funny, but so true! People are more likely to just skip something they'll have to take a bit of time to read and pay attention to for more than two seconds. :P
I'm guilty of that, depending on my mood. Most of the time I'll skim my friends page in the morning, then after a coffee and more wake time, I'll go back and actually read it.
I've never written much about my day to day life, mainly because I don't think anyone would honestly care.. and partly because my journal is for me, and I KNOW what happened, therefore I don't have to tell myself. :P
In the same way my journal is for me so I don't write, your journal is for you, so you do! You do write alot, and therefore you have an awesome record of yours and Ste's relationship and your life in general. Regardlesss of if anyone else actually read it or not. :P
I don't know if I'd be able to keep someone who posted things I strongly disagreed with! Ok, I'm a hypocrite. There are 2 people on my list at the mo that I disagree with their posts.. but I havent had an actual confrontation with them over it. :P
It was very coherent and relevant. :P A comment about comments. *cough* :D
Ahh yes, I do the 'ol skim & re-read manouver too!
And that's true, a lot of the time I write the things we've done because it makes me happy, and because it means I can recall the event and add my mental commentary of what I was thinking about it at the time also :)
Hmm, I guess it felt rude to just not add her because despite those two main quarrels we get on just fine! I'll see how it goes though, i'll give her posting a chance & if it's angering me too much i'll tell her i'm un-friending her & why, i'm sure she'd understand that enough, even if she thinks i'm in the wrong. I denied adding someone once because she was an uber-feminist, although she seemed lovely, intelligent & eloquent I said it was probably best if I didn't because of my anti-feminist stance, and I was polite, so she just deleted her request like leaving it there would disease her with anti-feminism :/
People seem to comment most when I post pictures, and as much as I love that, i'm insulted that they don't comment as much as that on my text-posts also. I don't think it's because what i'm writing is boring, because I don't think it is, I think it's because they're lazy! I usually write a huge text post when I get back from spending time with Ste, because I assume my friends would quite like to know what i've been doing, but now i'm feeling much less inclined to do so, because unless people are commenting to show they care, I know I had a great time, so why waste my time on a huge entry?
So in my experience people will respond most to pictures, something funny, something easy to read or something that's really pissed them off. Infact I added a friend from a forum the other day, although i'm not sure how it'll work out, because she's anti-Catholic & a feminist, and i'm a proud Catholic & anti-feminist. She had me completely & utterly insulted in the very first post I read of hers, she was Catholic-bashing again, being utterly disrespectful! I tried to show my disapproval [she knew how i'd feel] politely; But we've just had to agree to ignore each others' posts if they anger us, as we've already torn each others hair out several times on two forums already; So much so that my Ste actually joined the forums to support my arguements!
*breathe*
Anyhow, about the timing thing; I seem to get no or few comments all day & then a flood of them between 9 & 11pm GMT. It seems to be the optimum time when most people are online despite differing timezones.
I personally try to comment on most things, because comments make what you're saying feel worthwhile & they make you feel appriciated [to recieve comments]. At the moment i'm lagging though, because i'm away so much; It's hard to comment on a missed 200 posts :/
I'm not sure if most of this was cohearent or relevant :|
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I'm guilty of that, depending on my mood. Most of the time I'll skim my friends page in the morning, then after a coffee and more wake time, I'll go back and actually read it.
I've never written much about my day to day life, mainly because I don't think anyone would honestly care.. and partly because my journal is for me, and I KNOW what happened, therefore I don't have to tell myself. :P
In the same way my journal is for me so I don't write, your journal is for you, so you do! You do write alot, and therefore you have an awesome record of yours and Ste's relationship and your life in general. Regardlesss of if anyone else actually read it or not. :P
I don't know if I'd be able to keep someone who posted things I strongly disagreed with! Ok, I'm a hypocrite. There are 2 people on my list at the mo that I disagree with their posts.. but I havent had an actual confrontation with them over it. :P
It was very coherent and relevant. :P A comment about comments. *cough* :D
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And that's true, a lot of the time I write the things we've done because it makes me happy, and because it means I can recall the event and add my mental commentary of what I was thinking about it at the time also :)
Hmm, I guess it felt rude to just not add her because despite those two main quarrels we get on just fine! I'll see how it goes though, i'll give her posting a chance & if it's angering me too much i'll tell her i'm un-friending her & why, i'm sure she'd understand that enough, even if she thinks i'm in the wrong. I denied adding someone once because she was an uber-feminist, although she seemed lovely, intelligent & eloquent I said it was probably best if I didn't because of my anti-feminist stance, and I was polite, so she just deleted her request like leaving it there would disease her with anti-feminism :/
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