Why people choose to answer an easy discussion?

People are busy and they tend to choose the easy way of doing things whether it be here or in life in general. Why do you think the world is so messed up? We think we are doing ourselves favors by working 24/7 and using technology to make things easier. But is life really easier now than it was 70 years ago? No it is just more busy. I am a person that does not like to sit idly and do nothing. My kids will probably be the same way. If I am sitting doing nothing I feel as if I am wasting time. I guess that is probably why there are not many answers to questions that really take thought. People are getting on here strictly to make a little money every day.

you are absolutely right, klaudine. i have pretty similar experiences with you, i mean....no, i don't start a though discussion but i found that thoughtful discussions mostly get less responses than the easier ones. yet, i still think we don't intentionally choose the easy discussions. rather, we choose the mediocre ones, the manageable discussions. because i find so many very easy discussions end up being stuck in the bottom layer of 'no responses'. you know, like 'favorite' discussions, and interrogative discussions (what is your name, what is the story behind your user name, how old are you, do you like a pet, do you have sisters, do you have brothers, do you have sisters and brothers, how many relative do you have, what is your hobbies....) well, i did read some difficult and deep-meaning discussions.... while i was reading the whole (lengthy)description, i kept wondering what to say to respond it. it was a nice but too complicated discussion. sometimes i had a lot to say, but didn't know how to express it. and, despite my eagerness to respond it, i ended up leaving the discussion. i think some other mylotters also experience this similar things, especially the ones who speak english as their second language. 'being stuck' such a situation, we face two big challenges in responding a hard-responding topic: what to say, and how to say anyway, i realize i should force myself to start responding them. otherwise my skill and knowledge and my-i won't improve here, and i will end up keeping responding 'interrogative discussions'

Before I answer your discussion, here is a question for you: why do you come to mylot and why do you still remain active here? Many people sign in to mylot to relax, spend some time away from their tiring and stressful work, to make friends and socialise and most of all enjoy themselves. Many people respond to easy discussions because those responses pop into their head the minute they read the discussion, a very relaxing thing since not much effort is needed. Imagine if your superior just gave you tones of problems to solve at work, would you still want to think so much when you finally got a chance to forget about the work? For those who are here to make money, time is precious to them. The more post they make, the more they earn and thus answering easy discussion would be the way to go as you can accomplish more in a given time frame. For those who come to make friends, do you think you would be more friendly if you asked an easy question or a hard one? Easy questions will tend to lead to longer discussions and thus people will know you better and enjoy the discussion more. You would have more things in common. Lastly, people are here to enjoy themselves. I doubt that there are many people who think solving complex problems or responding to discussions that require some thinking as an enjoyable thing.

people really don't like to get to deeply involved in serious subjects, or some are afraid they will answer wrong, but an opinion isn't considered a wrong answer, but rather its a statement or a point of view. I have wrote very serious content and never heard from anyone, although i know my stories were read, they were to powerful not to be read. like you i wrote a simple off the wall story and i got responses off of that one. If the topic is to serious or it makes people not want to feel a certain way they pass it up. Everyone should read the serious stuff as well, because that is how we sometimes help each other to understand some situations that we all face everyday. Just because we don't know each other in person, we do sometimes get to know each other through our writing, our personalities are in our writing as well, you can figure who a person is inside just by reading what they write about, you can get to know how they feel about different situations, different social concerns, about life itself. No one should be afraid to answer a serious article and if you don't understand it, just ask, thats what we are here for, for each other and to learn from one another, there are some times i know i sound like i'm whinning, but thats life also that is part of us just like laughing or crying let your emotions go crazy on paper we are human. maggie

I noticed that too, but mine was most probably because chemistry and laboratory are hardly everyday discussions. The mere fact that this is a forum means that people come here to relax and not to be too serious. I have to accept that fact that things I may consider worth discussing are not really that interesting..and I realized , if people wanted to seriously learn, they would have attended a class in school instead. We will just have to think of interesting questions that could appeal to everyone. All the best.

A bit like taking the easy way out I reckon,but you have to take into account that many users of these type of sites are from abroad and they use them to gain command of the english language so then an easy discussion would be the best option for them,just a thought

i understand your feeling. the same thing goes for me too, i really wonder why those require non thinking (or less thinking to be precised) discussions always come the top. this is really a good discussion, i might be able to find my answer here to. perhaps, because those discussions are easy to answer, that's why so many people are willing to participate in the discussion, although usually the case is that the responses are so much of one liner. perhaps the good discussion that requires deep thought has scare people off? maybe they are too afraid to give their thoughts as they are scared to offend other people accidentally, or afraid that their answer is wrong, and many more reasons. but after surveying some of the discussions, i realise that people usually respond to silly discussion just to earn easy money, as it's easy to answer, and they can respond to as many discussion as they targetted in the least amount of time. just look at this discussion, to respond to your discussion itself, at least i have to allow more than 5 minutes for me to think for the answer. but i prefer to respond to this type of discussion, because we can share our thoughts, have more knowledge, and stil we are get paid :D

Sorry i didn't read your last page of posts but I got the idea. I have found myself discouraged with Mylot, and it comes right after my first payout. I was frustrated by the lack of meaningful discussions other than easier ones and I do not come on here for that. Yea, I want to get paid but Im gonna use my little time that I have to answer silly questions? Then when you do try debate its like your a monster for taking the unpopular side, I even lost a star rating which put me off even more. I mean when you think about it, were not getting rich on here so for me its not worth the change for the time you give it--some people spend all day on here. I do like politics but god forbid you take the democratic side, talk about culture wars.

hi klaudine I also wondered the same thing. I came to this conclusion. a lotof people are lazy and do not want to rev up their grey cells so they opt for the easy one that they dont have to spend but moments 'responding to. that is a shame as a lot of better 'discussions get left in the dust. people could take a few more minutes and put on their thinking caps, and respond to 'great discussions. we do a disservice to the person who' put a little work into her discussion by bypassing it like that simply because we were too lazy to stir up our brains into thinking mode.

i also choose easy discussions. i guess most of mylotters are working in the office while viewing mylot website, we don't have so much time to think of a hard question or hard topics.

why? because most people understand the easy discussions are based to our personal experiences which everyone can relate.Time is running and everyone is rushing in making money online and not enough time to stop and think very well for the responses of those hard discussions. So many prefer the easy way which they can relate. Which they can have an answers.happy myloting.

Easy answer.

Hi again! I think, people tend to answer easy discussions because that is easy to answer... They can easyly concretize ideas and they can easly expres themselves which makes them tend to post more, that is better than asnwering discussions in which you have to think a bit more... Hope that makes sense.. Anyweiz, that is just my opinion.. Happy mylotting klaudine!

The common atitude in human being is to take the easy things in life o make their life easier and less complicated.thank u

Because you don't have to wrack your brains trying to understand what the poster had said . People want something that they can easily answer top. I have the same experience, too.

I think because sometimes it's really hard to think of something to reply especially when the topic is quite difficult. Whether we admit it or not, most of us have times when we do not want to think but just talk. The way we do on our own daily lives. It depends on our mood swings. As for me there are times that I would like to answer on debates, sometimes I would just like to refresh my mind and just converse on topics that I really love to think of such as food and hobbies. Not necessarily that most of mylotters are not thinkers.

Why is that you think? I personally think maybe just maybe a lot of us just really wants to post and earn some cents. Well I do. Well not exactly. Lol. Responding to a discussion asking about your favorite color is a lot easier than the one which asks about what a president should do to improve his country. Although both questions are answerable, but answering a question about your favorite color requires less thinking. I myself prefers discussions in which I instantly have answers and those one's that I have interests of.

Because people want to find the easy way out in life.

whoa!!its just easy to answer...lol, because chosing easy studies will make their life more easier,lol, and more bucks to get easily...