Wanna talk to Richard? Great! You totally can! Just one simple rule… Talk…
That’s it. Speak and you shall be spoken to.
I get a lot of messages, emails and Instant Messages from my website and my profiles on sites like Myspace and ClosetedManChildren .com and the easiest way to field these messages is to immediately close (ignore) all the one word or single symbol ones.
So if you’re saying “hi”, “merp”, “hey”, “what’s up?” or any form of them… Expect no answer.
Drop the salutation. No Hello required. Just talk.
Say what you came to me to say and i’ll respond as soon as is convenient for me.
Leave me a message that is nothing but a signification that you want someone to talk to you because you’re bored or you’re unwilling to speak until your “hello” is responded to and you’ll receive dead air.
You people have to realize that this new internetz thing isn’t like real-life… You say “hello” in person or on the phone to signify the start of a conversation and then you get to what you have to say. In an electronic messaging system, saying hello and then saying nothing until the other person says hello back is just rude. Just talk. Leave your message. Start it with hello if you want but then immediately say what it is you came to say.
Not tryina be a jerk… I know it’s slightly offbeat. I get it. You’re used to at least waiting for someone to say hi back before you begin with your news, question, sharing of media/link, etc.
I’m different.
Did you not know I’m different? Then you probably shouldn’t be talking to me. But now that you know. Please follow the rule.
Your other friends arent as popular as me. They don’t have anything going on. I do.
I’ll give you my time and attention, but only if you make it easy on me.
So now that you know… go ahead and hit me up.
Just talk…
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