People don't want to say no anymore. I've noticed more and more that when I ask people hey do you want to do this or send them a message or a calendar invite they don't respond. It's frustrating because it would be nice to be able to plan things and get a yes or no and no whether or not it's going to happen. But instead of responding they just ignore and say nothing.
Unless it's a yes. If it's a yes there is an enthusiastic response and off we go. But the US usually comes very late and close to the time of the event, as if they don't don't really want to commit until the last minute unless something else comes up.
As I think through this phenomenon I'm starting to believe that it's because of the marketing that is everywhere. We are bombarded with ads and shows, reading material, videos on the Internet, and every other type of media that we take in. We don't really want to say no, and it's often too much of a pain to stop the ads so you just don't go back or you stop reading that and move on to something else. But you never say no and push back on it.
So as marketers continue to provide for our attention in every venue they can open our responses are conditioned to be one way or another. And as we go along people commit less and less.
It's also a personal thing where they don't want to offend and so instead of saying no and having to explain them so they just don't say anything.
Makes it hard to plan anything and makes me think more and more that people don't like me. I guess it's true what Gary Vaynerchuk said: marketers ruin everything.
