Shay

Sorry if we were leaving you out of the conversation in chat. Haven't talked to Cam in a very long time and got carried away. Hope you'll come back?

Greg

I really apologize for not including you in the conversation. I have not talked to bptoo for over a year and we were really close (I even ate his lasagna). I just had too much to say and too many emotions overflowing; I wasn't purposely ignoring you, my mind was racing with everything that I hadn't told Bptoo (eg. my prolonged absence here, not calling him at home, the results of the court case in which my daughter was killed, my work situation, abandonment of my psychopharmacology career, the 4th month of renovations of my house, an accident where I rear-ended a lady and am now being sued, etc.) I was trying to remember all of this and type it, but I just got everything muddled and my concentration was strained. It was too hard to switch gears to meet you.

Can you forgive me? Very Sincerely - Cam

Sorry about that. My internet connection is cruddy lately, lots of skips or something and then the oldest kid decided to wake up and talk to me. Definately dont feel bad as its not either of you alls fault. Well that is unless one of you is messing up the connection! Frustrates me thats where the $@#! came from.

Cool Shay. We had thought we had insulted you or ignored you, or something!

(WB (((CAM))) You have to do more than that to run shay off! heheheh

This is an interesting thread. I find Chatroom netiquette and courtesy challenging to get right all the time. Sometimes a person comes in during the middle of a conversation -- it can be challenging to get the new person up to speed.

The newcomer may have his/her own conversation needs that don't fit in with the current thread. It's easy if one person is in near-crisis to decide who gets my attention, but less easy if both conversations are equally compelling.

Lastly, there are instances where two people want to talk about one thing, another two about something else. So there's lots of confusing cross-talk going on.

I do the best I can to be polite to everyone -- including the person I already was talking with when we are not finished -- but I may have offended people.

I am probably going to offend someone by saying this, but I think that a person who enters the room, and expects a conversation to end and now focus on him/her, might try developing a bit of patience. If people do not offer to recap the current conversation for you, monitor what's going for a few minutes. Ask for a recap if you can't figure it out.

If you have a pressing need to share about something -- tell people what it is, instead of attacking them for continuing a conversation.

If these thoughts go against popular netiquette, I am open to being set straight.

that's a good point, wants2. i did that just the other day in chat, before realizing what i had done. there was someone there questioning me and it turned into a convo between the two of us almost immediately upon my entering.

i realized what had happened and apologized to the others in the room, which they were very kind. they said they were just listening and found it very interesting. i know they were just being kind

however, i appreciate your thread, because even though i realized what i had done, it happens lots and i was one of "them". hehe. i'm working on the fact that it doesn't happen again. unless, of course, there's a true crisis, and in a time like that, ppl need attn/input often immediately. however, that was not the case when i monopolized the convo. i think if someone comes in with crisis, that exceptions should and are made to allow the individual the input he or she needs. and the ppl here do that. it's wonderful.

thanks again, and this was my way of accounting for my actions, and apoligizing once again.

kd