I'mME wrote:
GregW wrote:
I am stuck on the "how are you?" being a turn-off. (Part of my hyper-focus issue)
It might be trite, but it could be a genuine query. The profile gives on overall picture of someone, but it rarely conveys how a person is doing at that moment. I know that when I have started with it, I am actually curious how the person is doing at that moment; I am not just starting with a formal greeting process (which, as we all know, should really be with a letter of introduction from a common friend).
I guess I need to work on it.
Is the issue really more about your feeling like you are going to to be giving information and the source of the "how are you" is going to give nothing in return?
GregW,
The question is not something I want to hear from a complete stranger. Period.bwjat they don't know me, I don't lie, so therefore I'm stuck ignoring the quesion.
Or "How was your day?"
Really? That's one I will ignore also.
Is it the first thing (people who call themselves Dom) learn from a book or something.
For me, it's NOYB.
I have never chatted with you,
You are assuming I am submissive, and submissive towards you at that.
I wouldn't tell a complete stranger about my day.
It's fake as hell, and most likely I will not want to chat again.
You think all subs are in the verge of needing to unload from their day.
It's not sincere, it's some kind of line.
These are my thoughts, about how are you or how was your day....
GregW,
After re-reading my reply to your question, I wanted to clarify something.
I answered the forum topic from these perspectives
New conversations meant a stranger.
What turns us off when a stranger writes or verbalizes ..............
I seem to have given some the impression (I don't know why since I didn't write it) that I ignore a person bc they are a stranger and I got turned off during the conversation.
Here is my clarification (it could run longπβΊοΈ)
No matter who comes into my box, I try to answer.
Turned off in my mind meant things they write, why I lose interest in wanting to chat with the person. New conversarion in my mind meant someone with whom I had not chatted.
If I open a message and someone has written
Hi, how was your day? π
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It is preposterous for a complete stranger to ask another complete stranger this type of question.
It's like they read a few notes of things a Dominants might ask. And for the record only people with Dom beside their name have ever asked me this question (a stranger in a new conversation) on the kink platforms I have joined.
It is a turn off, which I checked and that is part of the forum topic.
I'm not going into the endless subjects or other things that one could write. The end of time would come before I could finish.
How are you, is similar in a distant cousin kind of way. But nonetheless it's still thumbs down.
So many different ways to frame this question so that it doesn't smack (smell) of familiarity.
Thank you GregW for letting me add my thoughts.
There was some confusion in the thread. They thought that I ignore people in my box if they write something that I consider a turn off.
And some folks may just do that, ignore a message like that. Hey, hey there, heaven must be missing an angel since I am writing you. (πβΊοΈ added that to appease my funny side)