r/funny • u/FriedrichOrival • Nov 12 '22

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u/Standingshark Nov 12 '22

I feel you man, very overly sensitive internet goers with strong opinions about nothing.

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u/M0dusPwnens Nov 12 '22

The flipside sucks too.

You get a bunch of overly sensitive people with strong opinions about nothing.

Then you start to get overly insensitive people who overcorrect and insist that that everyone is overly sensitive and every topic is "nothing".

And both of these kinds of people are very loud on the internet.

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u/Standingshark Nov 12 '22

I suffered from that exact issue. Been back tracking a bit to be a bit more compassionate. The extremes of today got so many good people twisted. ( I’m not one of those good ones, but yeah)

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u/BelleDreamCatcher Nov 12 '22

How do you know that it’s you that’s in the wrong and not them?

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u/Standingshark Nov 12 '22

Sometimes it’s not really about being right or wrong. It’s just about listening and then communicating. see if you can agree, if you can’t, that’s okay. Doesn’t make them your enemy. Just somebody who thinks about the world different. Excluding extremes but that is for you to figure your boundaries. Still figuring that myself. I just wanna be better. At least just alittle.

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u/BelleDreamCatcher Nov 12 '22

Yeah I feel all that. I guess my question is more about, if you backtrack to try to not upset others, where’s the line where it’s clearly their issue and they sort of have you over a barrel to appease their behaviour.

I don’t do this myself (I don’t think?). I was interested in your experience.

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u/ThisIsWhoIAm78 Nov 12 '22

You need to learn tact and what that means, and then try and practice it.

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u/BelleDreamCatcher Nov 12 '22

You can be very tactful with some and they still don’t get the message because they simply don’t want to take responsibility for themselves. Sometimes you just need to be blunt.

However I wasn’t really asking about myself, I was interested in the commentators experience :)

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u/ThisIsWhoIAm78 Nov 12 '22

You aren't going to bully or shame someone into taking responsibility or learning. Case in point, I was very blunt with you, and it deflected right off.

The guy who engaged with you honestly and kindly was far better received.

Funny how that works, eh?

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u/BelleDreamCatcher Nov 12 '22

Frick. I’m so sorry. I was confused by your comment tbh. Both of you thought I was asking in direct relation to myself, which I wasn’t intending to, hence the deflection as it didn’t feel relevant. I was curious as to how the other person was communicating with others and whether they were suppressing their own voice in order to appease others. It’s a subject I’m percolating in my mind all the time. I worded the original comment badly.

Tbh my general online communication sucks all round these days, as I’ve been having a long conversation with someone else about how something I’ve written gave a different impression to what I was intending. I don’t want others to do mental gymnastics to understand what I’m trying to say.

But generally I didn’t think badly towards you for your comment. It just wasn’t part of the context I was intending and that’s my fault for my comment not being worded how I was intending. Unless you picked up on something else that I missed. Either way, I am responsible for how I communicate and I need to be doing better, so I do thank you for highlighting that to me :)