slacker2114 said:
Ok, now that my eyeballs stopped spinning from trying to keep track of all the 'we's and 'I's, lemme take a shot at this...
Sometimes, for whatever reason(s), when someone sets up a meeting of one sort or another online, things do come up. And then, because they missed the set time, they feel too embarassed to answer for whatever the reason is. Others sometimes have second thoughts for one reason or another and simply decide not to respond any longer.
And then, sometimes, some people are just plain rude jackasses.
Hope that gave you some insight.

Well, I would be one of the rude jackasses
As I mentioned before in a different thread... coming from parents who had me so late in life, I was raised with values and traditions from their era. Therefore, I find it difficult to converse with folks who are brutally, immediately honest about what they are there to talk about in PM's or on Chat.
Now, while I have been able to flex and stretch some of those values and traditions and modify them to suit the times, there are some that are just so rooted that they won't budge.
Before I go further, because I don't want to ruffle any feathers, let me say that I have been in chat rooms, been on other forums, I even play an online game... through these I have met great people from all walks of life and from so many different and wonderful foreign countries. I have also been witness to the way people talk to each other as well as myself in the age of the internet (as a writer... this is great for bettering dialogue and learning new slang). In these conversations, I have realized, that a majority of these people are speaking to each other, out in the open, about things which I was taught should be said in private... and only to those with which you are intimate.
I have become used to that, I'm not shocked anymore when I see these conversations, and even enjoy the banter these things generate. That is all good for those folk... however... it is not good for me. (I do, after I get to know a person better, get a bit more free in my talks with them.)
When I first start chatting with someone... I look for three things... politeness, sense of humor and intelligence. It's only three things and to me they make all the difference in a first impression.
With that being said... when I am approached in PM's, chats and voice chats, this person at the other end thinks I am probably "with it," that I am used to these open conversations and like most am probably comfortable with it. And without hesitation blurt right out with what they came to say. Be it about tickling or sex. I can't really say it shocks me so much as... disappoints me. To think that this other person doesn't really care much beyond what gratification I may give them by engaging in intimate talks.
But, at least these gentlemen are very clear as to what they want to talk about, and I admire them for their honesty...
Not too long ago, I told a friend of mine, "It seems like the women have stopped acting like ladies for so long, that men are forgetting how to treat them like ladies."
(Now, before I get all kinds of hate mail from the fellas... I do not mean ALL men. As a matter of fact, most of the fellows I have met in here are complete gentlemen.) But...
Welcome to my world.
So... here's where the jackass part comes in... betcha didn't think I'd ever get around to that did ya? ...
When these more open gentlemen engage me in such conversations... they get out about 3 to 4 sentences and I put them on ignore... I don't even have the courtesy to tell them, "thank you but I'm not really comfortable talking about this." Immediate ignore. I guess maybe I just don't want to get into any kind of confrontation and saying that would provoke one. I dunno. But I do know, it makes me one of the jackasses.
To those of you I have done this to... I have no excuse... I am a worm.