I was thinking about this because of a recent occurrence on another site, not Mene. I don't want to offend anyone!

Do you ever have a thread which you own or chat in frequently, when someone air-headed comes along? They're perfectly friendly, but you know you can't possibly have a good conversation with them. You can't be rude to someone so nice and tell them to leave, so you just have to try and eke out an interesting conversation, but alas... it can't be done.

Sometimes... not on Mene though. People on Mene are usually fun to talk to.

I don't know how many responses you'll get to this, seeing as the community is pretty close-knit and probably someone would realize if they were being talked about. XD;;

But I will say that it's not so much that I don't enjoy talking with people I don't have much in common with as I don't much enjoy when people arrive in my threads and set up camp when they insist on not even actually talking to anyone. I don't really like it when people walk in and basically leave journal entries in my threads and walk out again without having responded to anyone in the thread or attempted to make any conversation topics of their own. (I don't count their 'journal entry' posts as conversation topics, as the sorts of people I'm talking about never responded to any responses to their posts.)

Yuhhh. But ya know, even I am sure I can be one of those people. As I can't really relate to a lot of people. Usually people are talking about school and exams and their work. I can't relate to any of that really. Besides work, but my work is boring, haha. So yeah...I'm usually left with nothing to talk about. And I somewhat have a habit of talking more than I should. When someone replies back, I sort of need to start giving a nice full reply to their post; instead of jumping into something similar about me. If no questions are asked and no interesting responses are made back, then conversation gets dull and dies quickly. But anyways, when someone comes into my thread that I know is quite a nice person...but I know I won't have a nice conversation with...I usually just make things short. Or sometimes, I'll try my hardest to make a long conversation with them. Bring up new topics and whatnot. I just feel bad for the people I bother in their threads, luls~

I am, without a doubt, one of those people. I don't try to be uninteresting, it just sort of happens. Like Jennifer, i find i have little in common with people that i may encounter. And on the occasion that i do, i'm not good at getting to that point to talk about it, seeing as I'm not very good with chatter. Most of it i find to be quite inane, and it just doesn't interest me. Unless myself and somebody i'm trying to talk to have a little something something in common, i can't usually make a convosation out of nothing...I'm just not like that really.

I've never actually had that problem that I can remember. I very rarely make threads or post on other website forums unless I know I have something in common with the other posters. I'm kind of anti-social. I'm not very good at striking up conversations with people unless they start talking to me first.

>_< I get the feeling I'm usually that air-headed yutz that's hanging around in someone's thread.

I'm rather awkward to chat with sometimes. I'm sure we dummies are all very well aware of how we are, but you can't really blame us for trying to stick around and maybe break that habit.

._.

I always at least try to be nice to them...but if I try and it makes my brain want to explode, I just tell them I have to get offline. But usually, the few times that ever happens, I end up being wrong and keep chatting with them. <3

That's happened to me...only on mene though. Everywhere else it's odd posts that seem airhead and would be considered spam on here, but the posters themselves aren't airheads, just apparently not got anything better to say on the subject, so I just wait for a different response.

AHAHA I HATE THAT
I'm too nice to be like "lol you suck gtfo"
However, a while ago someone I wasn't too fond of from seeing her posts around started popping into one of my threads and we ended up becoming friends, even talking on MSN... meh it's like real life; you have to deal with people you don't particularly like, and sometimes it turns out you're wrong about them.

Ah ha, that...would be me. xD
I'm sorry, I just never have anything valuable to say. :'C
However, I come and go like the tide, so no one has to worry about me staying around too long. 95% of the time I'll be gone within five minutes from when I came. xD

Sounds like Fabby.
She usually just doesn't have that much to contribute. If you're all sitting around immersed in conversation already, what am I supposed to say? It makes me awkward and then I have to try and make my way into the conversation but I'm not good at that and... yeah. D:

Honestly... I think I might have encountered some of those too. But like what Caro said, it's real life. You really have to deal with those sort of things.

I usually try not to go for a confrontation or do the whole 'gtfo' thing. I feel it might just be a spur of the moment/for now sort of thing than something permanent. Or it just might be their personality. I feel that just going 'LOL AIRHEAD' might be actually a misconception of sorts? I mean---I'd like to think there's more to them.

Sometimes I go out of my way to get to know them, sometimes... it just happens.

At any rate, I just have to tolerate and try to understand.

Though at some point... I remember just going offline and reflecting about things there instead of facing them because I felt too vulnerable to go through it. As in interact with people who were... but then I think I'm going off topic and also talking about the kinda insensitive/pompous but nice people I meet on Mene.

But I think it's just me thinking that way?

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