Hey all!
I am just kinda well, arghhhhh would be the best way to put it I guess. I just left a chat at a site that I thought I would check out for the first time. I have bought a few small things there (it will remain nameless) and I totally respect their talents so I thought, let me check out a chat. Well, I tried and tried to get "in" on the discussions but there was more of the little chitty-chatty stuff and when I would try to say something, it was lost so quickly. I said hi a couple of times and no one answered. I asked a very pointed question about something they kept talking about that I didn't understand and waited for an anwer... but no one did. I felt totally invisible and unwelcomed.
I know, I know, chats move fast and people can easily get lost in the shuffle but I made a point of saying it was my first chat there. When I was on a moderator team and a creative team on a couple of different sites, I always saw it as part of my job to make sure everyone felt welcomed and that you at the very least said hi to people when they entered the chat. I still do that as a matter of fact, at least in the sites where I'm well known.
I'm not really running the site down... especially because you all don't know which site I'm talking about. I guess I'm more or less just getting this off my chest because I felt totally let down and kinda depressed like a new kid in school who couldn't even be noticed by the popular girls let alone talk to them. I do have more important things in my life of course and this is so small but it bothered me enough that I just wanted to vent a little to the only people who could understand. Its kinda pathetic really and writing about it is helping me get it... ok, I'm feeling kinda silly now. Its just a darned chat afterall right? Lol... ok, never mind! Let's go back to being happy little scrappers now. :D
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That has happened to me more than a few times! It is so frustrating. I hate feeling like the "new kid" LOL!
Sorry for your frustration. HOpefully next time you can have more opportunity to chat. :)
I know what you mean..I tried it at several places and not only when they were busy..just a couple of people...I was invisible to them I guess.LOL..I don't chat any more.:)Actually..come to think of it..I never did..cause they never acknowledged I was there.LOL Guess they have the "select" few that they will chat with.But I had that in High School too..I think they called them 'clicks" at the time.If you weren't in their group...you never would be.:)But I am a survivor.LORL.There are others I have made friends with.:)
I, too, have given up on chats. I felt totally unwelcome and an outside when I tried three or four time to join chats. They are just not worth the time or effort to me.
I, too, have been in those shoes and hate it. I guess since I'm on a couple sites, I try to welcome everyone or at least say hi. Yes, sometimes they move very fast and at some it is all clicks. But that's just the world we're in, I suppose. Of course, it's the same when applying for a CT. It's a shame. But you know the theme song to CHEERS....'where everybody knows your name'...so stop on by. Mwah!
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