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The 35k comments in 11 months says otherwise.
You mean the comments I make while sitting at a computer? The comments I make because I am seriously ill and not working and have very low energy and thus are not able to do much else?
Sorry my wanting to have the small amount of human contact I have outside my own family on a daily basis is so offensive to you.
Didn't say it was offensive. Just pointing out that you are, in fact, using a lot of social media.
no one thinks you said it was offensive, but you sure were flippant/“gotcha“ about it.
OP absolutely thought so. Their exact words were "Sorry my wanting to have the small amount of human contact I have outside my own family on a daily basis is so offensive to you.".
That's not even what I was implying. I don't care how much someone uses social media. I saw a comment on a social media platform about not using social media and couldn't help but roll my eyes. Then I clicked their profile and saw that they're averaging more than 100 comments a day for almost a year.
Was it flippant? Absolutely. Was it a gotcha moment? Maybe, but only in the sense that I was planning on pointing out the hypocrisy in implying they don't use social media on a social media platform, and instead found the exact kind of social media addict that the article describes
You should probably rethink how you communicate if you have to write all of this just to try and prove you were not being rude/kind of a jerk.
If anything I need to rethink how I communicate that I'm not offended by people using social media, but I am offended by hypocrisy. I thought for sure that's what I typed out. I don't care that it came off as rude.
I have no doubt you don’t
You're a cunt
Cool
Message boards are not social media no matter what the revisionists say. They are wrong.
I never said I wasn't. So it sounds to me more like you wanted to point it out for another reason.
You caught me. I'm biased against people who play Word Cookies.
People sure seem hell-bent on giving me shit on a regular basis for posting a lot, so I'm sorry if I assumed that was your intent.
I think you may have flown off the handle a little bit but I definitely got a “gotcha“ vibe out of their comment so I don’t blame you for being irritated
Thanks, and yeah, I woke up irritable. Sorry.
I definitely see a lot of comments from you on the various communities I'm subbed to. I think it's great because I like reading comments so you do you.
Thank you, that's very nice of you.
I’m no saint lol hope your day improves
Thanks!
FWIW I think the quality of your posts is noteworthy, so the quantity is a good thing.
Thanks!
Man, you really blew the fuck up over a tiny comment. Is this why you have zero social contact? Because youre an asshole?
Maybe that's why or maybe because people are constantly giving me shit for posting a lot. Or maybe both.
You are certainly free to think I'm an asshole and people are right to not spend time with me if you wish.