A poll about your online presence.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I've studied and assessed the problem for me in real life. In real life, if there's a group of people talking, I don't want to interrupt, so when someone finishes talking, I'll wait a beat or two before saying something to be polite. But other people seem to understand the exact instant that Person 1 stops talking and they'll jump in immediately. So I'll wait until Person 2 stops talking and will try to give them an extra beat or two to be sure that they're done, but by then Person 3 is already talking. So I pretty much just stand there and don't say anything, whereas on the internet we can all talk simultaneously so it's not an issue.

In real life, my post above would've been "I've stu-" and then I would stop talking because the next post after me would've already started talking.

Also, if you don't care about a certain topic IRL, you're sometimes forced to sit there with an interested look on your face, hoping someone will digress, and hoping that you'll be paying enough attention when they do... you can be much more selective here, and even choose to ignore certain topics or people.

I wish real life had an ignore button.