Attention whores!

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

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Fixed

No no, I didn't make a mistake. The division between biological and psychological is just an illusion.

 

[INTJMom]

You're welcome.

What is attention whoring? Attention whoring, I'd say, is about doing things where the primary objective (or maybe sole objective) is to draw attention to yourself. Making a thread serves practical purposes of information gathering and intellectual investigation. So, even though you might get attention as a byproduct of making a thread, I certainly wouldn't consider it attention whoring. The closest thing to attention whoring on this site is probably making a silly nonsense thread, like a thread where the OP just says "I see you!" or something like that. I wouldn't even call that attention whoring, though, because it comes out of playfulness, not neediness. The precise emotion that motivates the post is the key.

Why do people attention-whore? Ask Jeffster! (Kidding.) The head teacher of the school of zen I used to study said that people have 5 needs, one of which is fame. I imagine attention whores have this need more than the norm. Erick Berne, the inventor of Transactional Analysis (therapeutic model) believes that people play games in order to get "strokes." A stroke is some form of recognition, and it's a need that carries over from childhood. It replaces the need for physical affection from one's mother/parent. Instead of collecting physical strokes, people collect psychological strokes, and have ingenious ways of doing so. Making a thread that purports to discuss something interesting while really serving as a vehicle to collect recognition (attention whoring) is one type of game.

I used to do that a lot more than I do now.
I think I still do it occasionally.

 

[Prototype]

Hi Demigod.

:hi:

 

[LostInNerSpace]

I like to say when looking for liabilities look close to home first. At this rate I can see how someone could be forced into attention whoring. I'm stunned at what I saw recently. I can't imagine what is going through some people heads.

 

[ragashree]

No no, I didn't make a mistake, imo. It is my belief - it may be far out, but it's my belief and I'm sticking to it, that the division between biological and psychological is just an illusion. I was making an ideological contention to this effect.

Fixed. Again

 

[miss fortune]

I'm not an attention whore! I'm an attention SLUT!

 

[01011010]

I'm not an attention whore!

No one would ever think that. U r srs bizniz. In fact, take that stick out of your ass already.

 

[miss fortune]

*looks prim*

Now you use proper grammar and spelling there young lady or nobody's going to take you serious!

 

[01011010]

*looks prim*

Now you use proper grammar and spelling there young lady or nobody's going to take you serious!

ICANTOHNOSOMEONESTOPME

 

[miss fortune]

:horor:

the horror, the horror....