Spreading the Love, NOT!
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I’ve had email from two insane people in a row today. One was through an online dating site and the other was a guy who invited feedback about his blog.
The first guy I met through a dating site and I had replied to him once and he sent a reply back. His reply had nothing for me to really build a conversation on so I left it for a time when I had something to chit chat about. I had planned to write some chatty emails when I had my other work done. It was personal, not an emergency and after all he didn’t come across as eager. Today he emails me calling me an asshole and saying how I’m pathetic and playing head games. Where the frick does this come from? I didn’t reply back the same day and I’m suddenly deserving of this? It’s insane! Thank God I didn’t ever arrange a date with this flipped out mess. Geez, he sounded like a psycho cause he hadn’t heard back from me after two whole days!!! Kind of scary.
The other one was a website I have read a few times, found through another blog but had not bookmarked or ever left a comment. This time I thought I would email a comment to the site owner. I didn’t say anything particularly inflamatory but the guy had a hissy fit. I had said I liked his blog but I thought he should move his content higher so it wasn’t buried under his spam/ ads. Well, it is good advice. No one can say they like digging down through spam to find content on a site. He called me a troll and a lot of stuff which was not called for. People, if you have a site and invite feedback don’t fly off the handle when you get it. Not everyone is going to think your site is great, some might even offer constructive criticism. I had actually said I liked his site and only offered feedback cause he had asked for feedback.
I know I will get comments now saying what a nasty bitch I am, how unrealistic or arrogant I am and so on and so on. Some people just seem to want to be negative and make sure to rub off on everyone they can. The new bloggers seem to be a lot more about spamming than blogging and people online are a lot angrier than I remember them being just a few years ago. I miss the blogging community, when it was about fun, free writing and exploring what was out here.
[tags]writing, publishing, email, feedback, readers[/tags]
4 Comments
Julia Walton
March 13th, 2007
at 6:27am
Hi thatgrrl!
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Kind Regards
Julia Walton
Marketing Department
Ravenshead Services Ltd
khalifa
April 4th, 2007
at 8:57am
Hi,
I was searching for SERPs for my site http://www.spreadingthelove.com and I came across your post.
If you came and reviewed my site I promise not to get angry with you ;-)
K
ron
April 19th, 2007
at 6:37am
Many bloggers these days think that their blog belongs to them only and no comment should be hurled at them except the nice one’s. They don’t think you, the reader, matter that much.
ebele
June 29th, 2007
at 7:30am
Why would anyone leave a comment saying you’re a nasty bitch, arrogant, etc? From what I can see, I think you did nothing wrong and handled the situations quite well. I’m not sure what I would have done. It really totally is about them not you. Shake it off. You’ve got more succulent fish to fry.