If you've done this, did you regret it? I mean, I've been on yahoo for a loooong time, and had a list of contacts a mile long. Now I am wondering if I may have been too rash? The computer is quiet for the first time in a year and a half! It's spooky!
2007-09-29 03:39:52 · 10 answers · asked by delux_version 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Honey you have done the right thing. I encourage profile clean up often and I will not connect with people that have huge numbers. It is purely defensive on my part from having been targeted and deleted. In here as in life it is wise not only to know who you are dealing with but who they are dealing with as well. The beauty is that the good ones will come back to you and you are free now to expand and see who is out there.
2007-09-29 03:49:49 · answer #1 · answered by Madam Naka 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nah. My list is pretty short. I never use my IM and my only email friends live overseas. My contacts list is pretty short. All my friends are personal friends or business contacts that I interact with regularly, anyway.
The kind of urges you describe sound like when someone gets really bored and frustrated with their E-life... you are spending more time and effort on it than your heart wants, and not getting any fulfillment. Don't delete all your stuff... just walk away from it for a little while. You say your computer is quiet, and it's spooky... that sounds like you are craving or expecting your computer to feed you stimulus to react to... Isn't that a little sad?
Now, I can certainly relate... I went through a similar thing when I used to play MMO games. When I got frustrated and resentful (bored) I would delete everything and start over, or switch servers or classes or games or whatever. Three months later... same thing. It's boredom!
Pick up a 'real-world' hobby that does not involve your computer. Maybe pick up two. Limit yourself to an hour or two of idle computer time a day (just like little kids and the TV!) that way you will get more out of your other, 'real' pursuits, and enjoy your goof-off computer time more.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you may even find yourself pulled away from your computer as you develop 'real' friends that you actually speak to and see regularly, and engage in 'real' activities with.
I say 'real' because your activity is not reduced to pushing buttons to produce visual 'non-actions,' i.e.: events that only happen on the internet - electrical signals bouncing around on a network - very much like idle daydreams or thoughts.
Go kick a soccer ball off a wall. Join a casual volleyball league. Take Karate. Be a bit more busy, and you will enjoy your down-time more!
2007-09-30 05:13:30 · answer #2 · answered by eine kleine nukedmusik 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope, never did that in like a group effort. Although I have a lot of contacts only maybe 7 come thru to my email box. I've asked some why they haven't responded to my questions and come to find out they haven't checked the box for the email delivery. I suspect that they haven't checked the box because there are some people who ask dozens of questions at a time (I guess that's how they get points) and some who ask 2 worded questions so you don't know what you're responding to till you get into the full question (on my pc that's a super slow process to do cause I have dial-up).
I was surprised to see the other peoples' answers.
2007-09-29 05:02:18 · answer #3 · answered by sophieb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey love...
I hear you!
I don't have pen pals or IM with anyone...
But I often delete my 360 friends...
And now I only keep one Yahoo!Answers contact...
Part of it is my OCD...
I have a thing with 'good' and 'bad' numbers and letters.
But, I also get overwhelmed with all these questions popping up on my Y!A profile page and all these nonsense questions that all my past contacts would star...
In 360 there is so much chain mail...
I just want to scream...
My only 360 friends now are people I know in the real world with the exception of another girl with OCD* :-)
You need to do what is going to make you most happiest...
You are not responsible for the feelings of others...
You are one of the sweetest people on Yahoo Answers...
So, if someone takes your self-preservation personal...
That is not your concern...
((((Hugs))))
2007-09-29 06:43:47 · answer #4 · answered by LUCKY3 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i like to think of that I somewhat have been fortunate with my contacts checklist and function all genuine human beings on it - you are able to in no way incredibly verify. I did one have somebody on who looked very friendly, very informative and quite like-minded then her posts began becoming particularly ordinary - not in the jokey-ordinary way that the numerous regs do, yet slightly too extreme. She began to sound very a lot an greater-type snob and a pushy non secular nut at that. I deleted her while she suggested that persons who 'failed' to breastfeed have been mendacity approximately it as everybody can breastfeed in the event that they attempt adequate. Seeing as I failed myself after 3 months, and ended up with PPD over the misery it brought about me, i did not desire somebody like that on my contacts. She grow to be deleted and that i've got left out her posts ever when you consider that. Oh, different than for the single the place she suggested there is rocket gasoline in formulation, and why might you feed it? (observe - they got here across a hint quantity of a *clearly-occuring* chemical it incredibly is likewise contemporary in rocket gasoline in some manufacturers of formulation - there's a large distinction) I do suspect that some exaggerate slightly, yet i've got possibly accomplished it myself while i think strongly a pair of undertaking. Exaggeration i'm comfortable with - not mendacity.
2016-10-20 07:24:01 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No never. I don't want to lose contact with many of the friends I have made here and I would be terrified even in a moment of rage and anger to do it and lose people I may not be able to find again.
2007-09-30 04:40:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but I do occasionally "clean house" delete contacts that I have not heard from in while or that have been deleted..
2007-09-29 03:48:21 · answer #7 · answered by FallenAngel© 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way!I did..to my other account..I deleted it and I had over 10,000 answers♥
2007-09-29 04:39:36 · answer #8 · answered by Melly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I have done it - several times... I don't regret it.
2007-09-29 03:43:23 · answer #9 · answered by doo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it wont take long to build up again :)
2007-09-29 03:43:14 · answer #10 · answered by ♥ jen ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋