My Adventures in Social Media

Yeah, sure...I should be working on a project for work that needs to be completed in about 14 and a half hours, but the events of the day have just compounded; this week has been trying my world in regards to social media. On both Facebook and Twitter, it has been challenging this week and both for different reasons. Sure, I do feel a little silly saying that people who reside inside my Chromebook and phone have the ability to rile me up so, but the fact that they are real people and not just some fictitious virus or known unknown is why it is a little disturbing.

This week, my troll on Facebook raised its ugly head again, this time under a new pseudonym instead of duplicating my account, and they started to slander me on the local news site, accusing me of saying such horrible things. After my experience of being an outcast nearly everywhere I have been, I would pretty much be the last person to tell another soul that they should kill themselves. This troll has been harassing me for a while now, and I still have no idea what they want or what the goal is to their mayhem.

Today culminated the loveliness of social media, as I awoke to a direct message from someone I follow on Twitter and Instagram. Apparently I am a dominant person on her timeline and she told me that she was going to unfollow me for posting too many pictures. On a picture sharing site. I wouldn’t have had a problem, nor even noticed if she unfollowed if it wasn’t for her message telling me that she was unfollowing me. I really don’t care who follows me where (unless it’s to the bathroom, then it’s just creepy). It escalated to me venting about not only her but the week in general, only to have her reply to me, and then delete the tweet about me needing to grow up and stop playing the victim. Then they (her and a friend) made an Audioboo about me, basically calling me a dominant bully. I am not sure that neither she nor her followers realize that not all of my tweets were about the exchange.

But...if the words fit or strike a nerve, then maybe it says more about the reader than the writer? Anyway, I just felt like sharing and getting the irritation away from my creativity. Time to finish the remaining 6.5 pages. Oh, also kicking around the idea of starting a podcast or forum. If you’re interested, let me know. If you wish I’d change how I am living my life, by all means, let me know that too!