basketdiva
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Post by basketdiva on Feb 28, 2022 1:14:37 GMT
I have a few people who share their results everyday. Don't get the reason for doing it other to see if you are better ate game than others. And yes I'm being judgemental.
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Post by maryland on Feb 28, 2022 1:19:51 GMT
No, I don't think anyone but me cares how I do on wordle.
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Post by greendragonlady on Feb 28, 2022 1:21:07 GMT
Nope
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compeateropeator
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Post by compeateropeator on Feb 28, 2022 1:25:50 GMT
Not on Facebook,but I do on here most days. My family also shares with each other. Not for who is best, but just as something else to kind of bond over and discuss…a kind of trials and tribulations type thing. No judgement passed whatsoever though. Everybody seems to have some good Wordle solving days and some bad.
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gina
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Post by gina on Feb 28, 2022 1:26:45 GMT
No.
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tracylynn
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Post by tracylynn on Feb 28, 2022 1:29:24 GMT
Several, yes. I don't get it either.
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Post by Bridget in MD on Feb 28, 2022 1:34:26 GMT
No but if I ever get it in one I will! Lol
I see less these days, but I think it was a comraderie.
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Post by putabuttononit on Feb 28, 2022 1:34:34 GMT
I shared once but just to get my fellow wordy bird friends interested 😊
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Post by myshelly on Feb 28, 2022 1:39:17 GMT
No
But we have a family text thread with me, my kids, and my dad where we all share our scores every day.
It’s a fun way for my kids to remember to text grandpa every morning.
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Post by littlemama on Feb 28, 2022 1:39:52 GMT
Nope. My goal is to solve it. Period. I dont care how many tries it takes, I dont care if someone gets it in fewer or more tries than I did. It isnt a competition
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Post by freecharlie on Feb 28, 2022 1:42:00 GMT
Yes, because the sibling rivalry is real.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Feb 28, 2022 1:44:45 GMT
Yes, I share and comment with about 4 or 5 friends who do the same. They almost always beat me with the number of tries, but I’m the only one of us with a perfect record.
I’m the tortoise, not the hare LOL.
I enjoy seeing the path each of us takes to get to the same answer.
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Post by monklady123 on Feb 28, 2022 1:44:45 GMT
Not on Facebook, but I do share with my dd. We like to see which one of us can get it in the fewest guesses. If I ever got it on the 1st or 2nd I might share only because that would be incredible luck (obviously there's no skill involved in getting it in one, and only a little skill in getting it in two).
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Post by padresfan619 on Feb 28, 2022 1:44:59 GMT
No. I share them here in the Wordle thread and I also send them to my brother.
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Post by purplebee on Feb 28, 2022 1:57:04 GMT
Yes, because the sibling rivalry is real. This made me laugh!
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Post by Linda on Feb 28, 2022 2:00:03 GMT
only on a FB chat thread with DH and our kids (we also share Globle and a couple of the kids share Nerdle)
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Post by lisae on Feb 28, 2022 2:04:32 GMT
I've shared at least once on Twitter but mostly I do Wordle on my tablet and I don't even have the social media apps on there to share it. I enjoy Wordle just for me - oh, maybe once in awhile I brag to Dh.
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Post by elaine on Feb 28, 2022 2:37:52 GMT
I have a long-running group text where we share daily.
Dh and I share every day via text too. I’m usually out the door before he is out of bed, so it is a morning ritual since we can’t talk about it and I can’t text with him until 1:00 at the earliest (when my class has lunch).
eta: it is friendly competition between my friends and I. But, we are all part of the same bowling league, so we have been competing against each other for many years. Wordle is a recent addition. It is all in fun for us.
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 28, 2022 2:43:50 GMT
No, but everyone in my house except the six-year-old does it every day and we share on the group chat.
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Post by myshelly on Feb 28, 2022 2:51:31 GMT
I have a few people who share their results everyday. Don't get the reason for doing it other to see if you are better ate game than others. And yes I'm being judgemental. Isn’t that the point of games? Someone wins, someone loses, someone has the best score? Like, that’s literally how games work.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Feb 28, 2022 2:54:47 GMT
Not every day but I have a friend who posts everyday so her friends post theirs on her thread. I participate occasionally if I get a 3. DH, DS and I have a friendly rivalry going that is hilarious. Sometimes I can pull a word out of thin air by luck for a 3 (and twice for a 2) and it drives them crazy.
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Post by silverlining on Feb 28, 2022 3:02:46 GMT
I have a few people who share their results everyday. Don't get the reason for doing it other to see if you are better ate game than others. And yes I'm being judgemental. Isn’t that the point of games? Someone wins, someone loses, someone has the best score? Like, that’s literally how games work. I think she understands how games work, but is wondering why someone wants to share it with all of their Facebook friends every day. To me, it's sort of like doing a jigsaw or the crossword puzzle. I don't think all my friends need to know how long it took me to do the Sunday NYT crossword, but one particular family member might appreciate it. She'd get a good laugh out of me telling her how happy I am to finish the Sunday puzzle by Wednesday We have a small family group text where we share our Wordle scores and then after everyone has posted we know it's safe to make a comment!
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Post by myshelly on Feb 28, 2022 3:07:00 GMT
Isn’t that the point of games? Someone wins, someone loses, someone has the best score? Like, that’s literally how games work. I think she understands how games work, but is wondering why someone wants to share it with all of their Facebook friends every day. To me, it's sort of like doing a jigsaw or the crossword puzzle. I don't think all my friends need to know how long it took me to do the Sunday NYT crossword, but one particular family member might appreciate it. She'd get a good laugh out of me telling her how happy I am to finish the Sunday puzzle by Wednesday We have a small family group text where we share our Wordle scores and then after everyone has posted we know it's safe to make a comment! She said “don’t get the reason for doing that other than to show they are better at the game than others” and the point of the vast majority of games is literally to be better at the game than others. I just think it’s a silly critique 🤷🏻♀️
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Post by cadoodlebug on Feb 28, 2022 3:12:57 GMT
I really think it's because it has taken the world by storm and everyone is excited and giddy about it. At some point the fascination will die down somewhat. JMHO of course!
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Post by elaine on Feb 28, 2022 3:23:23 GMT
Isn’t that the point of games? Someone wins, someone loses, someone has the best score? Like, that’s literally how games work. I think she understands how games work, but is wondering why someone wants to share it with all of their Facebook friends every day. To me, it's sort of like doing a jigsaw or the crossword puzzle. I don't think all my friends need to know how long it took me to do the Sunday NYT crossword, but one particular family member might appreciate it. She'd get a good laugh out of me telling her how happy I am to finish the Sunday puzzle by Wednesday We have a small family group text where we share our Wordle scores and then after everyone has posted we know it's safe to make a comment! Maybe some people don’t have groups that they regularly text with. Maybe Facebook is their social media outlet. Maybe they are just trying to connect with other people and posting their daily Wordle is one way they do that. Maybe they don’t care how well they did, or whether they did “better” than any of their Facebook friends. Maybe the fierce competition aspect is on the part of the reader/OP and not from her Facebook friends. And, maybe, just maybe, a little harmless competition between friends isn’t a bad/negative thing. It isn’t as if anyone is winning a scholarship to Harvard, or being given a large cash prize, or offered a posh job based on their morning Wordle. I text when I didn’t solve it or took 6 tries as readily as when I solve it in 3. I can laugh at myself when I do poorly and admit that a large part of Wordle is lucky guesses when I do well. If I regularly did Facebook, I would probably post it there, but I really don’t use Facebook much and very rarely post besides Happy Birthdays.
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Post by freecharlie on Feb 28, 2022 3:33:02 GMT
I don't want to quote people because I don't want it to feel like I am calling anybody out but...
I post whatever the hell I want and whatever the hell I am thinking on fb. If you don't like it, unfollow or unfriend me. I have more of a filter there because it is more public, but if something pops into my hea, I'm gonna post it.
My family and some friends interact on fb. People get to choose what and who they respond to.
Because I started posting, multiple friends and family have started playing
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Post by christinec68 on Feb 28, 2022 3:34:44 GMT
I don’t but a lot of my friends do. I’ll usually like their post and will comment if they got the word on the first guess or if I had a similar struggle with the word of the day. I don’t really give thought to why people post them and it certainly doesn’t bother me. I don’t think they’re trying to show they are smarter than people esp since most of them post the 2 guess days and the 6 guess days.
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basketdiva
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Post by basketdiva on Feb 28, 2022 3:51:42 GMT
I think she understands how games work, but is wondering why someone wants to share it with all of their Facebook friends every day. To me, it's sort of like doing a jigsaw or the crossword puzzle. I don't think all my friends need to know how long it took me to do the Sunday NYT crossword, but one particular family member might appreciate it. She'd get a good laugh out of me telling her how happy I am to finish the Sunday puzzle by Wednesday We have a small family group text where we share our Wordle scores and then after everyone has posted we know it's safe to make a comment! She said “don’t get the reason for doing that other than to show they are better at the game than others” and the point of the vast majority of games is literally to be better at the game than others. I just think it’s a silly critique 🤷🏻♀️ Yes most games are to be better than others but I look at Wordle as an individual challenge. I’ve only myself to beat.
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Post by pjaye on Feb 28, 2022 3:51:47 GMT
No...I just post it here if there's a specific one I want to make a comment on, either one that I lucked out on or one that I found difficult in some way But then I don't post anything on my own FB wall anyway.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 28, 2022 3:55:33 GMT
No I don't share it every day. I have only shared my results once, the first time I played. And that was mainly to tell my friends about the game. One other time I shared my results on someone else's post, to show that we had done the same (or maybe it was to brag that I got it in less goes than they did! ). I have a couple of friends who share their results most days. It doesn't worry me. Sometimes I scroll past, and other times I might comment.
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