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Day 239: Are you sure you want to add Ansy as a contact?
My 27th secret is this: The flickr contacts/commenting/favourting game scares me a little.
So, back in the earlier days, when I had just gotten started with this flickr game, I added people as contacts, because I wanted to keep a record of the stuff they uploaded, see their new stuff sort of thing. But then I got pulled into the "oooh this person added me, let me add them too" road. And then it got out of hand, come contact number 600 odd. And as soon as you get that many contacts, it's simply hard hard hard to keep on track with new updates.
So then I went through a phase of un-contacting all those I didn't want to check out regularly. And kept those I had to keep.
These days I get a lot of contacts adding me (not meaning to brag). But they add me after seeing like ONE image, or favouriting ONE image. And I'm like... are you sure you wanna add me? Will you even return to my stream?!
And I feel bad for not adding them back. Not that I'm mean. (Ok, I admit I am a little), but sometimes I don't want to go back to the road of adding random people and not being able to keep on track with contacts' updates. And I'm not being funny there are some weirdos out there who add me.
And then there's the whole "I'll scratch your back, and you scratch mine" theme, with leaving comments. And the whole comment-group thing just does my head in too. And it's pretty annoying, those GIF comments. And people who just leave no other comment than the link and reference to the group they found the image from. What's the point?! Anyone can just copy and paste! It's so stupid!
I'm sorry if I don't head over to your stream as much as before. Or leave comments for that matter. Not as often as I'd want.
And I thank everyone for leaving comments on my images. And visiting my stream on a regular basis.
It's not that I don't love you. I love you all, very much.
But sometimes it's hard to keep on top of commenting images. Or keeping up with the updates. Time (oh how I hate time).
But to be entirely honest. I'm not mean. I don't make artificial comments, for the sake of commenting. When I comment (or favourite an image), I really and utterly truly mean it. I comment because I want to say something. Give someone praises. Not because I have to. I don't like being forced.
So viewers, contacts, everyone, I'm sorry if you don't feel loved by me. I'm not snobby. But I just don't believe in superficial comments and favouriting images, and making superficial contact-relationships (adding someone when they add me).
This whole flickr game scares me sometimes.
For the rest of this month of May, I have decided to take this opportunity to do the
30 SECRETS IN 30 DAYS challenge! I will tell you my secrets. Day-by-day :) Ok, some may seem like facts, but they're still things not many people know about, thus qualifying them to BE secrets. Heh.
As inspired by Anonymously Yours by the amazing Krelic. Go check him out!
Day 239: Are you sure you want to add Ansy as a contact?
My 27th secret is this: The flickr contacts/commenting/favourting game scares me a little.
So, back in the earlier days, when I had just gotten started with this flickr game, I added people as contacts, because I wanted to keep a record of the stuff they uploaded, see their new stuff sort of thing. But then I got pulled into the "oooh this person added me, let me add them too" road. And then it got out of hand, come contact number 600 odd. And as soon as you get that many contacts, it's simply hard hard hard to keep on track with new updates.
So then I went through a phase of un-contacting all those I didn't want to check out regularly. And kept those I had to keep.
These days I get a lot of contacts adding me (not meaning to brag). But they add me after seeing like ONE image, or favouriting ONE image. And I'm like... are you sure you wanna add me? Will you even return to my stream?!
And I feel bad for not adding them back. Not that I'm mean. (Ok, I admit I am a little), but sometimes I don't want to go back to the road of adding random people and not being able to keep on track with contacts' updates. And I'm not being funny there are some weirdos out there who add me.
And then there's the whole "I'll scratch your back, and you scratch mine" theme, with leaving comments. And the whole comment-group thing just does my head in too. And it's pretty annoying, those GIF comments. And people who just leave no other comment than the link and reference to the group they found the image from. What's the point?! Anyone can just copy and paste! It's so stupid!
I'm sorry if I don't head over to your stream as much as before. Or leave comments for that matter. Not as often as I'd want.
And I thank everyone for leaving comments on my images. And visiting my stream on a regular basis.
It's not that I don't love you. I love you all, very much.
But sometimes it's hard to keep on top of commenting images. Or keeping up with the updates. Time (oh how I hate time).
But to be entirely honest. I'm not mean. I don't make artificial comments, for the sake of commenting. When I comment (or favourite an image), I really and utterly truly mean it. I comment because I want to say something. Give someone praises. Not because I have to. I don't like being forced.
So viewers, contacts, everyone, I'm sorry if you don't feel loved by me. I'm not snobby. But I just don't believe in superficial comments and favouriting images, and making superficial contact-relationships (adding someone when they add me).
This whole flickr game scares me sometimes.
For the rest of this month of May, I have decided to take this opportunity to do the
30 SECRETS IN 30 DAYS challenge! I will tell you my secrets. Day-by-day :) Ok, some may seem like facts, but they're still things not many people know about, thus qualifying them to BE secrets. Heh.
As inspired by Anonymously Yours by the amazing Krelic. Go check him out!