do you type before you think?

I type while I am thinking. I then go back and read it over to make sure it is what I want to say. Then I will usually send it. For some reason it is easier for me to type my feelings out than to say them.

i dont. whenever i make replies, i type what my head thinks. then im sure that there's nothing wrong with the reply i posted because i depend much on my free flowing ideas. i type what i read simultaneously so im sure that what i am typing is relevant to what i was thinking along. happy posting!

I do this more frequently than actually shows up in my final post, with many thanks to the handy backspace button. Even with backspace and delete, I still manage to have some things slip past those safeguards. Especially when I'm on digital art forums, I take a look at the art I'm about to critique, then post my input, then take another look and realize that I'm totally off base. Luckily, forums have a hand=y "edit post" button, and I can always change my first take on the art into something a little less knee-jerk reaction style.

That thankfully has not happened to me, because I usually think before I type. It's definitely safer that way. Sometimes, I can sit in front of the PC for a long time pondering what to say in response to a discussion, and nothing much comes out of my head. At other times, when an idea comes I start typing, then keep changing and chopping as I went along. In the end, the thoughts were all incoherent and didn't quite reflect my sentiments about what I really want to express, so I throw the whole thing away and restart all over. Also at times, when nothing much comes out after thinking a long time, I just give up and move on to another discussion. So yes, I do think before I type and if I have nothing worthwhile to say after all the thinking, I won't post in case I end up regretting later.

That has definitely happened to me before! I hate it when that happens because sometimes I can hurt someone's feelings without meaning too. I try to read what I've just written to make sure that it doesn't hurt someone's feelings but there are times when someone just reads it wrong. I am also afraid to put a smiley face after I say something too, because I don't want someone to think I'm being smug. It's hard to portray exactly what you're saying without being able to use your own voice tones and facial expressions and that's why I think it's easy to say something on the internet that may hurt someone's feelings or it's easy to be hurt by something where the author did not mean to hurt. I hope my answer is what you were looking for.

Very rarely it happens with me. But sometimes, after hitting the submit button i tend to think i could have presented the matter in a much better manner with more substance.

Normally I always try to be as much careful as possible about whatever I'm writing or typing.But, yes I must admit frankly that this thing that you have mentioned has happened tome also many times and even at mylot also. But most of the time I always try to read my post or typed matter before hitting submit button. However, when I'm in some kind of hurry or too tired, I tend to skip this 'read before submit' step and later I find that many mistakes have been left.

Not always, sometimes I read and just type my first reaction and if it's an email I save it as a draft and then go bakc later. Sometimes I just send it off and then wish I had expressed myself better.

Yes I have done things like that. I have typed a response here and then later on the person comments to me and I read it all again and I think, I can't believe I said that. That is not what I meant. I think it is because I get too tired sometimes and I still work the site because I haven't been active much lately, and then I end up typing things I didn't mean. I just hope that no one ever gets mad at me, although I am not mean by nature so I am sure I wouldn't type anything mean. I also try to remember to always say this is just my opinion, so no one gets mad at me. I have had someone get really mad at me once here in mylot and then she stalked me for about a month till mylot got rid of her. What I mean by stalking me is, she went to all of my discussions and a lot of my responses to other people's discussions and said really nasty mean things to me, about me. So I am mow careful what I say so I try to think about what I am going to say, before I say it. I also tend to read my response now before I post it so that it doesn't come across the wrong way.

I admit that, once in a while, I do that when I'm feeling rushed. But I just don't get as much out of this site when I do that. The money we get on here is a good bonus, but I don't see how this little money is worth the time spent if something more wasn't keeping me here. I like taking part in the conversations and sharing ideas with people. Get a few bucks is a nice extra, but rushing to get those bucks isn't worth it.

Sometimes I do it, and some times I don't. Usually I know what I want to say, but or I forget within a split of a second, or make a lot of stupid spelling mistakes.

I did that one time over the presidential debates discussion. I was so scare that I was going to get kicked off mylot for that one. That's probably why no one responds to my discusions anymore. Sorry friends,I didn't mean it. It's been a really heartfelt,cray election. And when Hillary didn't make it,well that was it for me!

Really, sometimes.

sometimes I do.. every morning when I cannot wait to read my post and responses sometimes I always see differently and I reply with another thing in mind.. every morning happens to me.. later by the night I realize that I could have answered better the question.. but it's too late by then..

Hi friend, in one of my response in friends discussion. I terribly made a mistake. I pointed out some of shortcoming of some people. I typed ' i ' for instead of ' they '. Then i realized i went back to discussion and ask pardon and told about i made that

I have actually used this method purposely in the past. When I have a strong negative emotion about something or someone, whether it's anger or sadness or frustration I sit down an put my thoughts into words on paper or nowadays in the computer. Sometimes just writing out how you feel is an amazing way to purge bad emotions. Then when you're done you rip up the paper or delete the computer document. You may think that not sending the person your thoughts totally negates the process but it's actually not so. When you write things down you get the thoughts and feelings out of your head. Actually this takes conscious thought NOT to send, but that's what I thought of when I read your post.

If only I could type before I think! I would be typing like 1,000 wpm. my problem is that I have a trillion ideas and thoughts going thru my brain, and I can't type or write fast enough. I have an illness that has robbed me of my ability to speak, and i have to communicate by writing on a board, or typing out on a text-to-speech machine. It's so frustrating because I can't get anything out fast enough!!

I have done so when I am very upset. I mean to say something but it winds up as something different and then I have to explain it all over. And then I forget to add the not, or add the not when I am not supposed to. Then I have to write a comment after that it was not that I meant. An example was when I said I believe in abortion after a discussion on the couples looking for babies and how they felt so sad when they could not get on, when I meant to write I do not believe in abortion. Of course if they read that post, they would have known, but I had to write a comment to clarify things.

Yes, it happened to me and to any one else. Sometimes I am correcting my mistakes but its quite late. My lotters will surely understand.

well i don't think most of the times when i'm chatting..but when i'm posting a debate i do think once so that my discussion has quality. sometimes when you type without thinking you maay do mistakes.