<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667166219277118996</id><updated>2011-11-08T17:33:27.937-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Waste Of Time</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ryancoke.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667166219277118996/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ryancoke.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ryano</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667166219277118996.post-3597314570603181107</id><published>2011-11-08T17:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-08T17:29:58.835-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Over Communication</title><content type='html'>Why is it that some people feel the need to overcommunicate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is "overcommunicate" you ask?&amp;nbsp; Well, it can take several forms.&amp;nbsp; One&amp;nbsp;is the act of verifying and reverifying without reading the answer to the first verification.&amp;nbsp; Another is involving people in a communication that need not be involved (i.e. replying "yes" to all of the recipients of&amp;nbsp;an email that should have been understood as a rhetorical comment/question).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These people continue to repeat this overcommunication, but nobody says anything to correct them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why not?&amp;nbsp; Why do you want that extra email or two in your Inbox (that you'll probably never read anyway)?&amp;nbsp; Or&amp;nbsp;why do you want to feel the need to reply to the person who needs confirmation so that they can sleep at night?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yes, so they aren't hounding you later for a comment&amp;nbsp;and distracting you from a task that actually matters.&amp;nbsp; They already broke your concentration, so might as well get it over with now so you can go on with your everyday normal inefficient communication.&amp;nbsp; These people are a waste of time...and space.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667166219277118996-3597314570603181107?l=ryancoke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ryancoke.blogspot.com/feeds/3597314570603181107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ryancoke.blogspot.com/2011/11/over-communication.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667166219277118996/posts/default/3597314570603181107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667166219277118996/posts/default/3597314570603181107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ryancoke.blogspot.com/2011/11/over-communication.html' title='Over Communication'/><author><name>Ryano</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
