The first time I encountered this concept was weeks after I first began to socialize online. Through a strange series of events, I found myself in the Thirtysomething chatroom at a little place called go.com. One evening, a quasi-regular chatter announced they were "leaving chat forever!" It took seeing this multiple times from multiple posters before I realized this was simply a melodramatic grab for attention. Inevitably these chatters would return when their psychotic break from reality was over.
Next it was unsubbing from message boards. Sure sure. Eventually they returned. Now, I see people proclaiming they are "quitting Facebook!" Yeah, right. These are just altered versions of leaving chat forever. They are also known as Screaming For Attention.
Look, people. Do what you have to do. People who truly care about you know where to find you. Throwing down the "Love & Attention" test to see who will panic when you say you are leaving is a dumbass thing to do. Quit it. I am not playing, and I lose respect for you when you start screaming and waving your arms like a lunatic.
Hey, I left chat once, for seven months. I did not make any big announcement, I did not tell everyone I was leaving chat forever, I simply stepped back. People I was close to knew how to get a hold of me. I was not seeking attention, I was seeking peace. When I found it, I returned.
I dislike absolutes, and I loathe pitiful cries for attention from full-grown adults.
5 comments:
great blog -- I so agree! Cynn
Um, I did that with Facebook (or facelies as a dear friend calls it) because I have family and friends in several countries and we were only communicating via Facebook...I felt an obligation to them to let them know I wasn't going to use that site anymore.
Why is that "screaming for attention"? I certainly don't feel like a "lunatic" or "pitiful", and no, not paranoid either, lol. I was looking for a more personal outlet...which is when I remembered I started a blog like 2 years ago, made 3 entries and then life turned upside down for a while.
Then I remembered your blog and remembered how reading it made me feel good and a little closer to you. So I looked it up and since I so recently gave up Facebook (I'm trying to return to the outside world) I decided to post and say huh?
Anyways I still enjoy reading your blog and hope life is being good to you...don't know yet, just started reading...cheers...
Was this about you? Are you sure?
Cynn
I was just wondering what caused such comments regarding deleting Facebook as I started reading this blog again and it coincided with my leaving Facebook! And life moneywise has has been great but personally, not so much. I feel like I've come out of a fog I have been in for the last 3 or 4 years.
Okay -- I guess you'd know -- but as she didn't say, I wondered!
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