ArmyCop -> RE: am i not worth a e mail ? (6/24/2005 9:50:44 AM)
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This is my first post, so 'Hi'. Pretty much everyone here has it right: Tell about yourself, tell what you're looking for, tell what you're not looking for. But don't order anyone around. It'll have the effect of driving them away. If a person does answer to a profile like yours, they're either baiting you or they probably need some professional counselling more than they need domination. I notice you're in the UK, and I know that the UK is filled with SMS fanatics and this method of spelling has become an almost defacto second language there. But many of the people who will read your posts and interact with you are not necessarily SMS-speakers. Or Prince fans. Speak well and write well. I'm not saying you have to use the Queen's English at all times but how you communicate in a relatively faceless and two-dimensional medium such as this is critical. The internet, despite all of the images on it, is still a medium where the written word is how you come across to people first. If you do so intelligently, you will attract intelligent people. I write well in order to communicate well. I speak well for the same reason. Does this mean I'm a stuffed shirt academic? Not at all. I love Bugs Bunny cartoons, the Three Stooges, Monty Python, and Adam Sandler comedies. But I can also hold my own in a conversation, either spoken or written, on architectural styles in ninteenth centurty America; the deeper meanings in Romeo and Juliet; or the beauty of DaVinci's sculpture. These things may or may not be of interest to you personally, but they have meaning to many. If you want to get responses from folks, on a friendly level or more, you may want to consider these thoughts. My opinions are, as always, only mine. Now where did I put that Three Stooges Retrospective DVD???
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