Have any of you been misunderstood and blasted in one of your discussions?

LoL Oh yes you have to be very careful on here. I dont think any of your friends here would misunderstand you. But some of the others might. When I first joined mylot I said something and somebody took it the wrong way too. Oh well people are so touchy these days.LOL Dont let it bother you.

I haven't really had that happen to me on mylot yet. And if it has I probably just didn't give it much thought and moved on. I mean there are so many different types of people on here and some people do tend to draw conclusions about other people rather quickly. The way I see it is not everyone is going to agree on every topic. There are topics where I may not agree with what one person said but they may post something in another topic and I may totally agree with them. I really just don't let what people say on the internet get to me. It's kind of hard for me to get offended by someone I don't know.

Yes, I was really blasted in here on my discussion about Telemarketer Tips & Junk Mail. I was accused of trying to undermine the American economy and many other things, and I was horribly upset. It was a "tongue in cheek" posting, funny things you could say to a telemarketer or things you could do with junk mail. I told the guy to lighten up, but it did upset me. He knows absolutely nothing about me and jumped to a wrong conclusion. I think some people on here are going to do that no matter how careful we try to be in wording our discussions. However, I will say that I didn't post any new discussions for quite a long time because of what that person said. In fact, I even considered leaving here...then I decided he certainly wasn't going to drive me away from here with his words. I would certainly miss all the friends I've made since I joined myLot, and I do love to respond to discussions where I feel I can make a contribution.

LOL - join the club dear - I had some punk tell me I need to get a part-time job at a pizza place so I can afford faster internet so I can be on myLot all day... Hello - I'm a single mother, have supported 4 children with no assisstance for the last 15 years (only one of the 4 still at home). I work a full-time job plus 2 part time jobs and I do pay all of my own bills - I do not plan on taking on another job so I can sit home and be on mylot - oh opps when on earth would I have time to even sleep or breath. Facts are some people just aren't going to take the time to get the whole story, while others really don't care about the whole story or understanding what someone is saying they are going to form their own opinions before they even respond. Just pass it by and don't let it bother you. p.s. I tracked down the discussion you refer to and you said nothing at all to give that person reason to respond the way they did, except that you may have struck a nerve and God knows what that is - and I mean that seriously, He does know.

I know what you mean. There's one member here who kept attacking me. She said that I'm way too dramatic with my threads. She is not even among the list of my friends. The funny thing is, she kept responding to my discussion. Some of her responses are good but the other three responses of her really unnerved me. This is pretty common here. If I saw someone who disagreed with me, I just shrug it off. Its the internet world after all.

I can certainly sympathize with you. I have not been misunderstands here yet, but I have been else where on the net. I think at times people are just to eager to jump to conclusions. Sorry that you were misjudge.

This happens. It is important to keep your sense of perspective. With over 80000 members on Mylot you will get people who disagree with you, who are rude and twist your words or read something into your comments that was not on your mind. You are right though, we have to be really careful with words. I lost two stars when I spoke by mind bluntly but not impolitely. I must have gotten a bunch of negative ratings. LOL

I've had it happen once or twice. A lot of the time it has to do with someone only reading the headline and not the description of the discussion. It happens quite a bit on religious discussions. One lady made this weird comment and when I asked her to elaborate on it, she said that she said it because I was an unbeliever. It was just the one question, so how could she assume that?

Sometimes people want to let off steam, to the detriment of anothers feelings. It is amazing what people do read in between the lines. Keep on posting. Take care!

Yes I have twice and both in the past week. I know I should not take things personally. One of them I just thought what an idiot but the other one really upset me because it was so unfounded. Actually I to get out of myLot for a couple of hours to compose myself.

I was misunderstood too in a discussion regarding fate. I wrote what i have experienced, but it did go well with the person who had started the discussion, May be he is much more experienced than me and seen more of life. I did not respond to his comment since I felt the person was too confident of himself.

I haven't been blasted here yet but I know eventually I will be cause there are times I can be so friggin' stubborn when responding to a particular post that I, myself, blow it out of proportion and then kick myself afterwards. I can be real good about 'reading between the lines' but usually just keep it to myself unless I feel I might be able to help someone clear up a discussion. One time I was reading a post and the responses when someone started blasting the poster. I read what the person was blasting about but knew the person misunderstood so I cleared it up for him and got a thank you in return. Just wish some ppl would just try to clarify something instead of just blasting away like they know it all.

Yes I have. I did one on cat declawing. I didn't declaw my cat. She came that way. It was assumed that I paid for it. Anways, anytime you open up a discussion, you are asking for anyone and everyone to come a knocking. I didn't read your discussion that you are talking about. I might just do that later.

It hasn't happened to me yet but, it might. It is hard to get the nuances of speech to translate to the written word. Something meant as a sarcstic side bar might be misinterpreted and taken seriously. It occurs to me that this is something that can happen more readily if english is not a first language, which I know there are people from all over the world participating on this site. Perhaps I should watch me own wording here too.

I have had a few responses where it has been obvious that the person has totally misunderstood the intent of the post. I usually take the time to express myself clearly, but this does not appear to stop some people from reacting as though I had written something else.

Yes, I have been misunderstood in a couple of my discussions and they told me to grow up and get a life and stop creating such useless topics. I just try to ignore those people that say and do such things or give them a negative rating for their inappropriate remarks or report abuse if they get out of hand. I am sorry that someone did that to you.

Oh, friend, they will read between the lines if all the lines are perfectly straight. I am sorry. They seem to pick someone and just go after them. If anyone misunderstands then it is your fault, of course.It couldn't possibly have been their fault. I have had it happen to me, as well.

It sucks that people love to assume your whole personality based on the discussions you started or your responses to those discussions. Though situations like this often happens in discussion boards and forums but I still don't like it.

Esther - some people will just WANT to miss construe what you say - even if you say something as simple as "I love my country," well, you can't love it because you didn't say "I LOVE my country" or you said "I love MY country." Some people are just looking for trouble.

Yes.Sometimes I do not understand opinion of others and sometimes other person misunderstand me.So if necessary,I through other ways to certify I understand others and others understand me.