Oh, and just for the record : it has never even occurred to me to twit anybody (I wouldn't even know how) There are people whose posts I often ignore, but it is not policy, just what I feel like reading at the moment.

I also have not picked up a phone in 30 years without knowing who is on the other end.

>>>Charles,
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>>>I understand it but at the same time I don't understand another thing.
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>>>I someone asks me to speak with him/her and don't ignore, I would communicate with that person and I would not make the other person beg for my attention.
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>>And that is usually the way I behave as well. But if I make repeated attempts to contact someone and I know they are ignoring me I decide it is an example of how different human beings can be and I focus my attention on people who enjoy my company.
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>... I decide it is an example of how different human beings can be ...
>Well, I feel sure that's not what you really think in your head at such a moment. These are just the non-offensive words you use here. In your head you'd use words for that person that are blocked here. And right you are!
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>My advice to Naomi is to do the same thing. That is, to decide to think of such a person as an @#$%.
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>>We can never control other people's decisions or behavior. All that is under our control is how we choose to deal with that.
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>Well, perhaps we can't control them, but we can condemn such people. As I did with Jay Johengen, whom I consider someone who expresses certain anti-social behavior. If he has a problem with that, for example if he now feels offended or insulted, my defense will be that it is anti-social to not communicate with another members here, that way causing stress in this community. Also he oftentimes makes derogative jokes about others here. In my head he's a real @#$%.