Is it wrong to called anyone a buddy in mylot

@MALUSE , I reread your discussion from before and it was so well explained. I am glad that you could express your feelings so "proper way". Thank you for it and hope that some people here will recognize themselves and stop calling other users here with terms of endearment.

Is that discussion post just your personal opinion or a rule made by @GoAskAlice ??

Thanks for sharing. I will keep it in mind.

@Berrygal @prakashj256 You can't tell me how to react to certain ways of addressing and what is rude or friendly. If I don't like certain terms of endearment, then nobody should use them. End of discussion. Nobody gets a 'Like' from me who calls me 'friend', 'dear', 'dear friend', 'buddy', 'dude' or whatever. It shouldn't be too difficult to understand this.

@Berrygal let him go. You don't need to be in interaction with him.

yea,that's was just trying to be friendly and he became very rude

@MALUSE 'Aunt' and 'uncle' comes to mind even if they are strangers. I am different I do not like my plumber addressing me as Aunt. I prefer the word madam' But everyone here is addressed as uncle and aunt.

@allknowing I'm glad I don't live in India. If I had been born there, I'd be used to such addresses. If I had come as a grown-up, the custom would annoy me.

Indians have the reputation of being respectful to their elders. Would a young person address an unknown person as old as their grandparents with terms of endearment in real life? Is it possible that for young Indians being active on the internet means that someone is also young (and childish)?

@Berrygal unfortunately not everyone who writes here wishes to be friends with other people. To some, people are just letters on a screen they can attempt to make a few coins from. Its my personal opinion, people being nice should be a good thing. There is so much negativity out there that kindness is killed by the sour apples who live miserably. Maybe when the world gets to be a miserable place where peoples greeting are "hey profanity filled insult" they may one day like or miss the once nice greeting people use to use.

In a friendly manner so that we can have a very healthy discussion

Writing on the same site doesn't make us friends.

@MALUSE i also refused to be addressed as BUDDY.

Definitely dear

Oh really noted then. Thank you

Presumably 'un/une badie' means 'quelqu'un avec qui on peut échanger des badinages' ('one whith whom one can exchange banter') (Yes, I know that such a person is more correctly 'un badin' )

@Berrygal The word "buddy" is perhaps acceptable in your place but not everywhere when you talk to a stranger.

How will the world be a better place where everyone become so harsh

@Berrygal Alright Buddy hahs

Noted dear

@augusta123 haha Buddy

Noted dear friend, it good to be friendly and the world will be a better place

Noted there, but the world will be a better place with more friendly people

@Berrygal yeah but we cannot please people if they do not want to be friendly.

Thanks dear, I used it in a friendly context and I was shocked at such rude response

@Berrygal

@thesupersingh you're always welcome buddy

Yea,there's nothing wrong with that .I think some people just enjoy being rude.its an harmless word,if we are to go by the meaning