Indifferent: Adj.:not showing or feeling interest. The 'smiley" face to the left represents being indifferent.

Imagine this: You belong to a club of let say about 85 members.You get up in front of your club at a meeting to present something of interest to you, maybe a joke, a picture or perhaps even a heartfelt story. When you look up at the end you see 84 faces looking just like the 'indifferent" smiley face. How would you feel? Would you want to continue to belong to this club? To make this a bit more real, when you look up you see about 80 indifferent faces and four or five smiley faces. How would you feel?

This is what occurs everyday in nearly all of the groups in EONS.

We have at most 10% of the members who care enough or who are considerate enough to respond to the posts presented by their fellow members. We have another 20% of the group who visit and apparently are indifferent because they never respond and then we have the remaining 70% that are so indifferent that never visit at all.

I know that most of the 20% of the indifferent visitors must really be interested because they keep coming back. It would be nice if they would remove that indifferent mask, show some teeth, show a frown or show some consideration for their fellow members. An occasional "LOL" or "Very interesting" or "Thanks for sharing this" would be nice. Even a courteous reply opposing the content of the post would at least showed that they were interested. In my family we can tell a love one that the purple vest-cowboy hat combination is in poor taste and still love them and it does not result in a fight. This world would be boring if everyone agrees with each one of us!

So here I am, standing in front of the club and presenting my case. What kind of smiley faces am I seeing?