Discussion Anyone write too much?

[TheGoodGuy]

Like when I make my posts or message with people I will write a fucking novel and they just respond with a few words I have to try really hard to make things short and it´s so annoying because when I write several sentences and I just get 2-4 words back they might as well just write "fuck you" or "shut up" or is it just me? I just can´t make anything short it´s so annoying because I feel people are annoyed by how much I write and we live in a day and age where people have a short attention span so they usually don´t wanna spend too long reading or even watching long videos.

 

[throwaway777]

i had this problem too i used to write so much and receive 1 or 2 words back ... now i try to keep things short mostly bc i dont like what i say .. the more i write the more i hate ms

 

[dayseeker]

I don't have enough to say..

 

[TheGoodGuy]

i had this problem too i used to write so much and receive 1 or 2 words back ... now i try to keep things short mostly bc i dont like what i say .. the more i write the more i hate ms

Yeah I don´t hate myself for it but the longer I write the more uncertain I become of it because I have longer to think about my post so I often delete it. Like I made a thread on another forum where I said that I delete maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of my posts because I start to doubt myself. I mean I write so much but post so little because no one would understand or even read it.

I don't have enough to say..

Well it might not be bad I have too much to say that is why I have a 290 page Journal because I feel all my thoughts build up with no one to share them with so I write them down to get them off my chest.

 

[TAW122]

I do have a tendency to write a whole lot, it is just a bad habit of mine, mostly stemming from the fact that when I was younger, I was told I was being too vague. Therefore, I became more self-conscious of whether or not I've written enough or written too little.

 

[Superfluous]

I try to be as concise as possible, but some questions require long detailed responses.

When I do have to write a lot, I find it helps to use lots of short paragraphs. Whenever I am faced with a huge block of text without paragraphs, my initial reaction is to not bother reading it. However, I mostly tend to persevere and read it, but it takes me twice as long to read as I lose track of which line is next.

 

[Deleted member 1496]

Yeah, I write too much too. It takes me days to compose something, and even then I try to reduce the size/character count without losing its meaning. I think I started reducing when I realized people weren't reading my emails because they were too long. And twitter character limit was 140 characters. and SMS was 160, where if I sent more than two messages, they would get received in an random order and hard to understand. Oh, god, then I learned the meaning of tl;dr. :)

I don't think people have anything against you. Or me. It's just the way some people communicate nowadays. Like the way people use graphics. Back in my day, where we walked to school uphill both ways, it was all ASCII text. You didn't need disk space or bandwidth. But then people started composing in MS Word. And web pages started using javascript. So much info, so people began needing to read and write fast.

But I do like to read a decent length. Sometimes it's hard for me to understand if there's not a lot written. Not sure what the balance is, but somewhere inbetween.