It's too long

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I never had to complain that something was too long, but you think with the amount that this is screamed on here, you would think that we are writing scrolls as long as Rapunzel's hair. Now, I get it. Some people are older on here and their eyes are not as good as they used to be. They don't want to read a 10-page dissertation, it can to hard to read. Especially if someone doesn't have the most voice in their writing and it feels like reading a textbook. But, the amount of "It's too long" I read on posts and even my own, it is getting really, really annoying. You would think I am trying to filibuster to avoid change or whatever. I'm sorry I don't write two sentence posts! I'm sorry I talk too much! Actually, no I am not sorry. Because I actually like writing. I have my bachelors degree in writing, I was an honors writing student, it is my freaking career to write! So god help me if I write 5 paragraph essays about my breakfast this morning. No God, please don't help me. Help the people that complain that something is too long to read. It annoys me because people think this is just a simple site like Twitter, everything needs to be concise and done in 280 characters. Actually, it is worse, it is more like old school Twitter of 140 and links still counted as characters. This is a website where you are paid to what? Paid to what? Come on, help me here. Oh that's right! Paid to WRITE And I don't know about you, but I actually like working for my money. Instead of sitting on my behind, watching soap operas, and just seeing the dolla dolla bills come flying in because I make the same god dang post every day or a post that is only two sentences long. We are here to interact, make discussion, and we can earn from that. I honestly feel like people abuse that since there is no character minimum, that people can just write 3 words (I'm exaggerating) and then get paid a few cents because of it. And people are too lazy to read. Okay, fine, my posts can get a little wordy. Fine! That's fine! I am not changing that. I'm the girl that wrote a 17-page research paper in 1 night when it was only supposed to be 10 pages and then it was cut down to 8 pages after other students complained it was too much work after 2 months of working on it. It is fine if you leave a long post because it doesn't interest you. I do it all the time. But I don't comment that the post was too long or the subject didn't interest me. I just leave a like and that is it, because other than that it would be rude to take time out of that person's day to read a comment that had nothing to do about their post when they could be responding to people who actually care. If you don't like long posts, leave. Or read the first two sentences because it was "too long" or just stare at the pretty picture that was posted. But for all human decency, do not comment that a post is too long. How do you think the writer feels when someone says that the post they made about how exciting their day was or something amazing happened to them and they get a comment saying, "I didn't read all of your posts because it was too long." how do you think that makes the writer feel? Yeah like garbage. At least it does for me. I am already very self-conscious on here because I am eccentric and not your normal poster. I'm me. I'm Felicia. I'm a writer and if you did not read this post because it was just too gosh dang long, you are missing out. (or it is going to get deleted which is out of my control). You are honestly missing out on so many other great posts that people do on here. Again, this isn't against the people who cannot read long posts because of vision problems. It is to the people who cannot be nice and keep their words to themselves and are lazy. That is the best word for it, lazy.