[c=#4C0073]Half the people on this site are mentally ill. The other half just doesn't want nosey individuals in their business. They use this site to think out loud and gather general opinions.[/c]

I think you'll find that it's mostly the younger set who do that.

My theory is, they have grown up with texting as a way of life. They've been in the habit of saying so much in text form, that most of them can follow several different conversations at once. Maybe two days before they had a convo with someone. They pick it up where they left off, with a question like "well, what do you want to do about it?" So they come to a site like this and they expect total strangers to have an answer to a question that has no background info. I like to give answers that have nothing to do with the question.

That's just my theory. Probably completely wrong. But it makes as much sense as an open ended question like Why did I do that?.

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