Why do some people feel the need to give you advice even if you don't ask for their opinion?
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It's just a basic human characteristic, people love to give advice! If they didn't,  Yahoo answers would have never gotten off the ground.\nMaybe that's a great thing about here, we can all get our advice and our opinions out before we have to go face the public, and won't have such an urge to be overbearing bossy-butts!
601289
Because they in someway think they are helping you. Most people can not famthom something that doesn't or is happening to them. Stop explaining why and just say don't feel like it today, but thanks.............
80046
It's imperative! How do you gain knowledge if you don't listen and learn from others? To stop and open your mind to all that others are saying, writing and doing is showing your thirst for knowledge.........your willingness to grow yourself. The most ignorant people I seem to encounter are the ones that seem to interrupt me mid sentence to give their take on a situation.......their opinion being the primary message they want to convey to me. Instead they show me they can't listen and therefor have not considered all sides of an issue and as a result do not have the knowledge it takes to form a rational opinion. Thank you for asking this. I enjoyed the thoughts!
1112543
I saw a video of guys answering this question, they said they might feel obligated at the time or just want to be polite because they were talking with you for a while, they feel it is just the next step even if they dont intend on calling. Guys are just hard to figure out sometimes!
905785
I'm not doing much to make people understand them, because I'm not interested in spreading my point of view. If you ask, I answer, and my politeness will depend much on the tone of the request.
835128
Did the person ASK for suggestions and/or advice, or were these things given to the person unsolicited? If someone ASKS for suggestions, and you give them, and then the person does what they want to anyway, well, there's little (or nothing) that you can do about that. If the person did NOT ask for the suggestions, and you give them anyway, then it's really none of your business to start with. The only exception to this, IMO, is if the situation involves someone being harmed.\n\nSometimes we (as humans) ask for suggestions or advice simply to gain perspective, or affirm what we already know to be the "right thing", deep down inside. If you have someone in your life who often asks for suggestions, and then goes off and does something completely opposite of what you have suggested, then you may want to refrain from offering future advice, as it seems that this person and you do not share a similar viewpoint.\n\nThis brings to mind the old adage, "You can lead a horse to water - but you can't make him drink".
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I think a lot of people want to answer questions that no one is asking them.  So they create "questions" that allow them to express themselves.
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I agree. I know a lot of people who do that. The longer you keep a problem bottled up, the bigger the problem gets. It's always better to be up-front and talk it over.
727863
The reason they do it is that they expect a strong reaction from you, even a denial, so they can have cheap fun. So, if you just say "So what?" to whoever brings it up, it would probably make them lose interest, and leave you alone. Be more careful in your choice of friends.
746524
You need to not be concerned with what people think.
997431
Its called being codependant.  Feeling the need to help others with their own issues to the point of ignoring our own.  Often without being asked.  Read up on codependency, i did just a little while back and my goodness it explained alot.
654173
You let people get to you because you have very little self-esteem, in other words, you have no faith in your OWN ideas and abilities. You have NO confidence in YOURSELF.\n\nTRY believeing in yourself and be CONFIDENT that you ARE right at least  about SOME things, so you CAN ignore comments from people that are nasty or provoking.
539758
When they never want to just hang out without needing anything other than your companionship. If they always seem to come up with a way you can help them out and they don't ever seem to want to offer to go out of their way to do something for you then you have a pretty good idea that whether they realize it or not, they are just using you like a resource.
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When I am around people that think or talk negatively all the time, I simply remove myself from that situation.  The negative people are just looking for that additional attention.  By not giving it, you are telling them that that is not cool.  They will either change or be alone.  When you do come across someone that is negative, find things that are positive to talk about.  Just dont let them bring you down with them.
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i understand your comments and to a point id agree,but i do think when people ask for help on here it is very brave of them and they are probably desperate.i have a degree in psychogy and i can assure you ssometimes friends family will not say to you what they feel they should.\ni am however concernd to a point that although i am sure every one on here will always give thier best advice ity is open for abuse by anyone looking for and with ulterior motives.\nso yes i agree with you but would to say people telling thier problems on here is very brave and to be admired and for some this is real desperation\nmike
1007579
Because they want a response out of you, they want to believe that it hurts you by them not talking to you, sounds silly doesn't it lol
1064774
Depends on the question...if someone asks for opinion then people keep answering because their opinion is alittle different...but if its a question with a simple answer some do it for the points...or sometimes i've gone to answer a question where i was the first, but till i was done typing 4 other people had already answered lol.