So I’m enjoying reading the posts of my friends on FB and I leave a cute little comment here and there. Mostly my opinion, sometimes naughty, but always meant to be funny. And I comment on a friend’s posting where she says that all the college students around her are driving her nuts with their stress over finals so she’s going to get them back by interrupting them. The first couple of comments are humorous and I add mine.. See below. Its not an insulting comment. It’s an opinion.
But apparently it was enough for one girl to go to my FB page.. find my blog page… and read… I guess no farther than the tag line, before she goes back to FB and slams an insult at me. When I read it I was pretty sure her insult was aimed at me, even though she didn’t say that, but I actually had to DIG to figure out what the hell she was talking about.
And I’m looking at her comment trying to decide if I want to reply and what I’d say should I choose to do so. After all, I’m NOT an unintelligent woman. Yet, nor am I one to waste time trying to defend something as minor as spelling errors to those with OCD in THIS day and age of texting- word- shortening! But I don’t like the feeling of another person assuming I’m cowering in hurt feelings by her nasty slash at me.
Amusingly…. a White Night or two came to my defense.
- Heather Baffles the hell out of me why anyone would voluntarily go back to school! But I watch friends do it all the time.. crazy. about an hour ago ·
- June Going back to school is this thing called “bettering yourself.” Commonly associated with gaining knowledge, mastering of skills, and personal growth through a variety of experiences. It also teaches things like the proper use of “its” and “it’s” in your blog subhead. JFYI 59 minutes ago ·
- June Also, don’t blame the homework-riddled. They have enough to deal with. (On a bright note, it pays off: Adam is now officially a PhD candidate, and thus is getting the fuck out of Buffalo!) 57 minutes ago ·
- Chris Wow that was mean. 56 minutes ago · · 1 person likes this.
- June No, it was educated. People in Buffalo seem to confuse the two. 55 minutes ago ·
- Eric Being mean and educated? Did you attend catholic school by chance? 53 minutes ago ·
- Heather Thank you June.. this 48 year old has been “schooled by the educated” I feel so bettered. 52 minutes ago ·
- Chris Excuse me for not bowing down before your greatness. I know it takes a lot of chutzpah to attack others’ use of grammar on the web. I’m from Buffalo, so why don’t you check out my blog and leave a nasty note pontificating about my lack of skills as well?50 minutes ago · · 1 person Liked this
- June Hatfield nah
Needless to say I have a NEW friend on Facebook! I look forward to reading Chris’s blog. Always got to support a fellow blogger. Especially when he writes such interesting erotica!
THEN the next day the original poster of the thread commented with June’s two blogs directly for Chris and me to “read and comment”. Chris “declined to stoop to that level” but I wrote that I “stooped and snooped and found a delicious spelling error.” Muahahaha. I did NOT post the error, nor comment on her blog OF her error as I didn’t feel the need to be mean.
But then she ASKED in the FB thread for the error and I happily pointed out that she spelled the name wrong of the musician she’s very taken with (I was less than impressed, but apparently June is a “hipster”.. we used to call them “beatniks” lol) in one of her blog postings. And I can barely call them blog postings. They are her musical opinions that she posts as one of several people posting on a joint blog. And the other seems to be mostly recipes, videos, pictures. There is very little written posts like mine.
I kinda expected more from someone anal enough to criticize my spelling! Haha!