p.p.p.s I do this in real life too, which often leads to me not saying much while other people waffle on about nothing at all while I sit thinking wtf are you talking about.
Think that pretty much sums up my approach to life – both real world and virtual.
My wife goes on about how little I post/comment on things on facebook. I’m pretty sure people don’t care what I had for dinner and I wouldn’t take a photo round to their houses to show them!
I get accused of being quiet/unsociable/arrogant/rude. Really, I just don’t want to say what I’m really thinking for fear of offending people. A lot of people seem very sensitive to my very dry sense of humour. I think a lot of it comes from seeing my wife who has had (but is thankfully improving massively) quite severe anxiety and will overthink and completely spiral out of thought control on things that people have said who probably haven’t thought about what they were saying at the time and didn’t mean anything by it but it completely consumed her for the rest of the day or longer.
So, I take the ‘if you haven’t got anything nice to say…’ and ‘it’s better to let people think you’re an idiot than open your mouth and prove it’ type sayings quite literally.
It’s also why I’m generally quite low profile on here and not forcing my opinions on others all day everyday (but don’t let that stop those who do – it’s entertaining reading for me!) 😀
Also, once I start typing I tend to waffle on and not know when to stop…..