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Originally Posted by Jay Random
It is your mistake.
This is written communication.
Speech has been around for at least 200,000 years, and in all that time, except for very specialized circumstances (such as conversation-books for the profoundly deaf), people have never used writing to communicate in social situations.
This is something entirely different, and it does not work like face-to-face contact. Here, for instance, we have trolls who don't even regard other posters as human beings (I don't mean you; I'm sure you can think of examples). In a real social situation, such people would be shown the door and never invited back. Here, they just keep spawning new accounts under different aliases. The number of people who can carry on a genuine social conversation is limited; here, we can have scores of people participating in a thread.
It's not the same thing at all, and frankly, if you think it is, then your reactions are naturally going to be calibrated wrong.
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…you think a social situation exclusively refers to like… a party… or a church “social,” don’t you? lol
That makes sense now.
But no, man. A social situation is just a situation where (in this case) people interact with other people. It has nothing to do with the type of communications.
People use writing to communicate in social situations all the time. We’re doing it right now. People do it in chats, message boards, texts, etc. It’s not 1970. You maybe had an argument when written communication was just sending letters, but you’re on something that was invented since then and really made 200,000 years of history irrelevant in terms of defining a social situation.
If you’re really going to get weirdly hung up on this I can start quoting the dictionary and sociology essays or textbooks relating to online social interaction. It’ll be harder for you to pretend I made a mistake, so your call.
But regardless of what you decided, we both know this really has nothing to do with the point I was making, which is that everyone knows, regardless of how or in what situation it’s communicated in, what someone is doing when they respond to someone’s hardship by bringing up someone that has it worse and saying that’s who they REALLY feel sorry for. No sense in running from the truth of that by pretending you don’t know what a social situation is.