how seriously are you taking these answers?

Question

Ok just out of curiousity....for those that are asking these sorts of questions....
1. What should I get
2. I want a meaningful tattoo but don't know what to get
3. Can someone draw me a tattoo?
4. I just got a tattoo - how do I take care of it
How seriously do you take the answers that you get? A tattoo is something very personal and I would think that the decision shouldn't be made by random strangers since the ink is going to be on you...also, with re: to aftercare questions, your artist should be giving you instructions....why are there so many questions about that??

Answer 1

Apparently Yahoo takes EVERYTHING very seriously....

Answer 2

A few of them do look like attempts to do something cool, and wanting to know what the "cool & inked" people do. I'd guess a number of the requesters are fairly young; the question may seem to them in the same vein as "What do I wear to this party?". Thinking deeply and long is for old farts anyhow. :)

Tattoos are becoming so in with some in the almost-old-enough-for-them crowd that there's a practically a rush; enhanced by the impatience of age (like most of us even now), anything outside of a quick, direct answer seems like too much effort. This *especially* with something like YA & the instant gratification of the 'net.

The last one, though, the care & such... that could be, especially in the case of the newly tattooed, is that they were told what to do and spaced. I remember after my first I was a little loopy. Sure, I'd researched it pretty heavily and had taken copious notes, and the place I went to gave me printed notes, but I was feeling so stoned afterwards that I wouldn't have clearly recalled anything outside of general instructions. I wouldn't be surprised if their shops didn't provide such printed usefulness.

Excuse for or explanation of activity - your call. Sorry for the long winded answer.

Answer 3

Yes, you are right...must be youngsters. I wonder why they are asking,"What cream can I put on my new tattoo?" I think to myself, "Didn't the tattoo artist tell the person how to care for it? Well, yes, he/she did.". I remember when my kids got their tattoos, they took very good care of them and they planned out what they were gonna get (behind my back, lol)long before they actually went. They really should wait until they know themselves a little better.

Answer 4

I guess that they just want to know other's opinions. Tattoos are kind of a big deal, in that you'll have them for a while. I would really hope that someone wouldn't just blindly go with whatever someone in northern Idaho or someplace says...

Answer 5

different artists give you different aftercare advice. the girl i just went to told me not to use A&D, but the guy i used to go to told me i should...its just confusing i guess and people just want to know what worked for others...

Answer 6

The way most do it is just they get ideas from others, and then decide on their own. . . At least I hope that what they do. . . . because blindly following someone's idea in not the best thing in the world.

Answer 7

More importantly...WHY don't people use the "check spelling" option that is CLEARLY IN VIEW???? Do they really want to look uneducated?
Let's face it, we live in a society that BEGS for "peer support" and we're just as bad for buying into it ; }

Answer 8

1. What should I get .....is my ALL TIME FAVORITE QUESTION. I come to the tattoo section to rip on these idiots.

Answer 9

Well, to add to this...my biggest beef is it that no one does searches on questions asked hundreds of times like:

Does it hurt?

Then they wonder why we flip out at times.

Answer 10

people like to be reassured, and if they are anything like me that like to be chatty about it...asking some of these questions is just an attempt to have conversation and meet peeps and stuff....