Is it my fault some "friend" on Facebook left me a stupid comment? I mean really, if you're going to discuss politics with me on Facebook you might want to make sure you actually know what it is you're saying. Let's get a few things straight...
The District Attorney's Office does not have a voice in the House or the Senate, so voting for a Republican for District Attorney because you want the "GOP to win," really doesn't make much sense to me. In fact, suggesting that it matters in any way does nothing but show your lack of understanding regarding local politics.
I can understand that my response to your comment may have caused some undue...anger. I mean, after all I did point out quite clearly that you "know crap about politics." At that point, being you were on MY profile page, it would have been best to just 1) admit you made a mistake, and 2) get off my profile page and unfriend me if you felt it was necessary. Unfortunately, you chose neither options. Well, wait you did make a choice. You chose to unfriend me, which was totally fine with me. But your mistake was continuing to feed my profile page with derogatory remarks about my excitement for the District Attorney race as well as leave ridiculous rants about "THE MAN" I had been working so hard campaigning for. Worse, you unfriended me before leaving the comments all under the wrongful assumption that I would not know the comments were coming from you. NEWSFLASH: I have all the e-mail notifications on both my home computer and my Droid. I tried repeatedly to tell you that I knew it was you...remember the initials? That was for you. Seriously, how could you not know that?
I guess if I had any regrets it would be that I engaged in the conduct at all. I could have stopped it from the beginning if I had just deleted your comment. All it would have taken was one little push of my finger on my Droid. Or better yet, you could have just read my blog post about My Life As A Chameleon. If you had done that to start with you never would have thought to engage me. I think I make it pretty clear in that post that I have a tendency to spit fire on occasion. This, was one of those times. I spent close to thirty minutes removing the comments from my profile when I returned home from one of the most important wins in my life. When I went to bed I was starting to feel remorse. But, regardless, I'm not apologetic for the swearing, nor am I apologetic for leaving a note asking you to "refrain from leaving any further comments on my profile page." Just so you know, I did the last one on purpose because I knew it would be circling around the HOME page to all of our mutual friends; to which there are many.
In the end, I appreciate all the support that flooded my message box on Facebook. It was nice to know so many "friends" understood my "outburst" and were willing to share some stories of similar encounters with these people. However, next time- I plan to take the high road and not even engage. Some things just aren't worth my time. Facebook Wars are one of them.
2 comments:
I got off FB for that exact reason. I had quite a few 'friends' who had opposite views on heated topics, and kept trying to lure me into fights. Some topics like politics and religion, you just can't discuss rationally with people. And unfriending them would have caused bigger problems. And I wasn't a big fan of FB anyway. (my spell check picked up unfriending. I wonder when Websters will put that in? Come on, get with the times)
I agree with you. If someone is reading about YOUR story or YOUR opinion on YOUR page, if they don't agreee then they should just go and find someone that they have something in common with. That is why I don't have my own blog, tweet, facebook, or any other social network site...I hate the "wars" that go on. If I comment on someone's page, it is because I agree with them and it is never a negative comment. I would rather keep it to myself. Way to go for sticking up for yourself, Sabrina!
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