I'm in MySpace for the networking, so it's hard for me to say no to folks when they want to advertise their stuff on my comments section. Usually.

Some people think they can write a short novel and leave it plastered on people's pages. This irks me. And I don't consider myself all that easily irked. Certain things do it, though. Tailgaters, people who don't clean up after their dogs, people who don't control their dogs--all of which is stuff I can't control, for the most part.

But I can control who gets to post on my comments space.

If you don't have something to say in your first paragraph--especially if it's a long paragraph--then you got nothing. If you haven't grabbed me in the first sentence, then I'm chasing butterflies, looking at something shiny, headed to the fridge, changing channels. Your ten-paragraph harangue is nowhere in my thoughts.

When you try to grab someone in someone else's comments, do it quick or not at all. Get the reader to come to your page and get the whole 99 yards. Don't try to change the focus on somebody else's page.

Okay?

Thanks.

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