How often do you say sorry? AKA Impact on offline life.

So i was playing a bit of online poker just 30 minutes ago or so. This guy gets lucky and wins. So to cut the story short we get into this huge argument. It actually turns quite nasty and we say some sick stuff to each other. Its very clear this guys is p-ed off. So i just tell him to go and have a sexual intercourse with himself and put him on ignore.

Usually i would have just left it as it is but tonight it kinda struck me... What if that guy was to drive somewhere later on tonight and being still quite angry speed and hit some kid as a result? Or what if he was going to unleash all his anger on his wife or something?... And it would be my fault in the way... So i just unblocked him and told him how sorry i was.

Do you ever think about the impact you might have on someone's life when you mess around or argue online? Do ever apologize? I never really used to until tonight.

 

Well it depends who that someone is, If it's someone I don't know much or don't really care about. I just use the block on MSN, or the ignore if I was put in your position. Maybe fighting online doesn't feel very real as fighting in real life.

 

Its just its so easy to tell someone off online and forget about it even though some people might actually take it to heart...

 

Presently i very angry beacuse somebody pissed me off and i ready to kill someone.Kidding,but it's true i am angry.And apologize will help,but that's not gonna happen.

 

I don't think so, I used to get in alot of fights back in the chatting days.
I never took any of them seriously, I only took the serious ones of my close friends if we ever fight online.

 

I usually try to avoid the fights, but if i can't...Online ones usually tend to be really bad and if i'm wrong then i'll apologize but...i'm never wrong. LOL

 

I usually sorry "sorry" about 20-30 times per day, usually for small things, I'm just that type of person.

 

Not too frequently.. gotta have some self respect too.

But when I have to, sure


~MG

 

just never be serious use lots of smiley faces, no one has ever annoyed me and i have never annoyed anyone.
and im a member of a lot of forums .

 

LOL... that's like the number of times I say sorry in 25 years.
What are you so sorry about?

 

Sometimes I step on the back of their shoes, someones I poke them, bump them, bone them...

 

I wouldn't have any sympathy for a wife beater, quite the opposite actually I'd kill the prick.

 

at the OP...yeah...I think about it a lot. I now try to diffuse situations quickly...by saying sorry and walking away.

 

I Use to say sorry all the time for stupid little things. now I'm much more brutal.

 

Apology accepted

~MG

 

i dumped my ex because she said sorry too much, annoyed the hell outta me

 

it is annoying i must admit.
its okay until you go over the top with saying sorry.

 

ya it was ridiculous, 99% of the time I hadn't even noticed and she was already apologizing haha

 

I know how you feel. I once befriended someone who would threaten to kill himself if I logged off of MSN. He was a great guy but was deeply depressed.

I always wondered if he would be there the next day and if he wasen't - was it my fault if he killed himself.....


My advice to you: The anger fades 5 minutes from walking away from the computer. Nothing to worry about.

 

I say sorry a lot too but in the case of online poker there is always an argument some people think its part of the game.