Facebook Flames and Other Burnt Offerings

[symian]

      I had to laugh today while reading my Facebook Timeline. I saw a post to a page I am not following, but Facebook sometimes informs me when a friend replies to a comment and shows me the original post. It was a simple meme. In fact, here it is:

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[texasts]

I HAD a friend that would see something in my timeline on FB. A friend's post that would be in my timeline and they would just flip out all over their ass. And she would do this shit repeatedly.

I finally had to cut her. Then she blew up my phone, messaging and email... (and LJ). Demanding an apology among other things... I cut and banned her everywhere.

And peace reigned.

She's back now under a couple of assumed names. Took me a while to figure out who she really was. As long as she's civil she can stay. We will likely never be as close as we once were. And we were quite close friends. But that doesn't mean you get to abuse my other friends that you've never even met, or had a conversation with. It's kind of a hard and fast rule with me.

She's not the first I've bounced. Won't be the last either.

[lautenist]

I lost some friends on such actually pointless flame wars, too. It seems hard to find a reasonable position towards the internet which swaps between personal and anonymous. Obviously we are not (or not all of us are) made for this kind of communication.

I had a friend who called me racist because I somewhen posted what I thought would be a cute funny story about "an italian in new york" making fun about the italian dialect. *sigh*

[texasts]

"Obviously we are not (or not all of us are) made for this kind of communication."

That's very true.