Hatemail Part ll. The Love Continues…

In my previous post “Hatemail, Anyone?”, I wrote about my very first negative, or “hate” mail (well, in these instances they are notes published on a very popular and well-used social networking site, of which I and most of my followers, (that’s you!) use regularly, if not daily). I guess the difference is that in a comment, I would have the ability to delete the rantings so that they would not become public. But, I relish stuff like this, so here goes!

Well, for those of you who are still reading along, may I assume that you see the humor in this?  The originator of my hatemail writes about the hate mail they receive constantly, in a very humorous way. I vented my jealousy and was assured by them that i “would eventually get my first loony”.  Well, for that to be the one and same is rather ironic, no?

Now, I responded to that musing, of which I took great insult.

Why did I take “great insult” you ask?  (Hey, I know you!  I knew you’d ask that…)

Well, mainly because in the original hate mail, the originator spewed about “regretting giving free tips and hints to group members. I prefer to get paid for helping people, now” – a simple look into the psyche of someone who has recently been sponsored and is making good money writing blog posts, articles, poems, recipes, and all other manner of information helpful in daily life living with some fun-style humor. I enjoyed reading their banters and commented wittily to them. They are no longer an active member of that group that I mention, which is a LinkedIn group called “Writers helping other writers”  (still not seeing the irony here?  Really?)

My response to their note that resulted in my post “Hatemail, Anyone?”…

“So, if I gave you a shiny new quarter, would you teach me how to lose my morals once I become sponsored, popular or successful?  Just so i know what to avoid… yeah! my first hate mail! a post in the works! Thanks! Been looking forward to this moment for so very long! I’d just like to thank my laptop, Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs”.

The return note, received a few days after posting “Hatemail, Anyone?”…

“Congrats on your post. It is indicative of your continued lack of information. Feel free to post this to your blog as well. This post is both private and locked, which was done so it could not be accessed by anyone except you and I. Your misinformation, and perpetuation of that misinformation to garner sympathy and support, is indicative of your failing to do the things necessary to move forward, despite such information being available to you in a number of forums.

Feel free to claim all the disrespect you like, the facts remain, I have said nothing untrue although the same cannot be said of you. Your accusations will not draw me out of our private conversation to air the remainder of my opinions. In the future, be careful what you ask for, as for once, you have gotten it.”

Lovely.

 

If i was looking for support, i would be naming that person, and linking to their blog. Trust me, I don’t get paid for this, I wouldn’t be too worried about losing some followers or even being booted off of WordPress or HubPages for sticking up for myself. I do this because I enjoy it, and I enjoy you. I love reading your posts (can you tell by the comments i leave on your posts?) and learning about the people who read mine.

 

The “post being locked and private” is new. That has been recently changed, possibly as a result of my post? Dunno, don’t care. When someone calls me a liar i explode. They (I use the generic they/their, as opposed to pointing out which sex they belong to) can repost it publicly, write about it, blog about it, rant about it, start a movement in four-part harmony about it -. I don’t care; I take great pride in being honest, and when called a liar in open or in private, I lash out like a rattlesnake. I do not lie. Sometimes I write fiction, but that is so very obvious when done, and is nowhere near being a lie.

But, I will not name that person, nor give a geographic location, much like they do when they write about hate mail that they receive. I used to wonder why they got so much hate mail and I couldn’t get one! Even after writing a long post questioning the existence of God (http://writersearningmoneyonline.com/blow-my-mind/) I didn’t get any hate mail. Not even a Jihad declared against me! (Yes, I even questioned whether or not their Deity existed in the blog) – but, my questioning their existences was in questioning the righteousness of written texts, from which we have all garnered our religious beliefs (if we have any, that is). During the many religious wars in mankind’s storied past, the victors were the ones who burned their opponent’s religious and historical writings and put their own down as the word. The last victor holds all the cards now.

But, as usual, I digress (that should be my middle name!)

What information was I in continued lack of?  Dunno, if i did then i wouldn’t be in continued lack of it.

So, why did I write this post?

Because I wanted to?

 

Well, apparently, according to them, I have lied.  Read what they wrote, it’s right there in grey and white.  That is why I write this post now, not for any other words or insults thrown my way, simply because I have been called a liar, by someone who, well, let’s leave it there for now. I don’t insult others – if I don’t like them, I just avoid them, why bother with back and forth incriminations, hateful banter, etc., when you could otherwise choose to be happy, to enjoy your time here on this little blue planet, third from the Sun.

 

 

BUT…

 

What did I lie about? Dunno.

What accusations did I make? Other than that they are successful, sponsored and popular? Dunno.

And, my favorite;

Why in the world would I “claim all the disrespect i want”???  Again, dunno. I was looking for hate mail, not disrespect. But if that disrespect is only coming from that one source, then i can surely live with it. I promise you i will not lose one second’s sleep, nor think about it after writing this post (well, maybe while composing responses to comments made on this post, if I have any faithful followers left, that is!) if the only love lost is from that source. Yes, source. Since insulting my group members, that’s as close to being human that I can comfortably refer to them as.

 

 

Ah, hate mail.  It really is all that it was hyped up to be!  If you haven’t gotten your first hate mail, either through a comment on your blog post or in a social networking site, you really should try it!  It is as much fun as this person has made it out to be!

But, in a more sober note, if you ever have a problem with me, or with anything that I wrote, either in my posts or in a comment that I posted on one of your posts, then contact me privately – there is a misunderstanding, not a problem.  I don’t have a problem with anyone on the Internet or in “real life”.  That’s for losers – I prefer to just move on, get along little doggies. Even the person who is the subject of this post; I can enjoy their writing while not enjoying them.

But, then again, I would never call someone a liar, whether they were or not. That is one statement that, at least in Canada, can have major legal repercussions. Even on the Internet. (Yeah, we’re protective that way here)

So – basically, if you think I have insulted you, please be assured that i have not. I am a heavily medicated chronic pain sufferer, I can’t walk more than a block without aid or I will fall flat to the ground. From cancer in the spine to skin cancer that was misdiagnosed for 2 1/2 years, then aggressively radiated, which caused more pain-inducing problems, I am in a constant state of extreme pain. I get federally approved medicinal marijuana, of extremely potent strains, and take strong opioids and need sleeping pills just to get 3 or 4 hours of sleep.

I am not looking for pity here, as was suggested by the sender of my first, and as of yet, only hate mail.  I just want you, dear reader, to understand that I sometimes write through a cloud of fuzziness, and often break up laughing at the most minor things, and many things that I write myself (come one! Are you telling me you’ve never laughed out loud while writing a witty retort?).  When you mix that with my sordid sense of humour (Yes! That’s how we spell it in Canada, get over it!), well, sometimes things can be taken the wrong way.

But, we are all grown-ups now, right? When we have a problem with someone, we take them aside and say “Hey, what’s wrong? Was it something I said/typed?”  We involve ourselves in civil discourse, and work things out. I would hope that at least 99.99% of the people who write blogs that i follow, and those saintly people who follow me, would see through the veils and only see the humour.

After all, laughter is the best medicine.

I hope you at least got a chuckle out of today’s post.  if not, my apologies – it was meant that way. But, if you have been a follower of mine for a while now, you already know that, don’t you?

My First Hate Mail! Yet, it includes my LinkedIn Group Members!

My wait is finally over!  Not only do i get my first hate mail (not as a comment, but left on G+ – not the same but just as good!), but the LinkedIn group that I started, which was once rather successful, and is now steadily growing again with the help of my online friends (and many more who should be joining soon through Social Oomph and Helium.com) was also targeted nastily, which I take very personally!

 

Now, I do ask my faithful followers and my great new friends from my group on LinkedIn (Doreen, Christy, Nigel, etc) to please at least read the last 2 sentences of the note (highlighted in blue, below).

 

In my very first hate mail (and it was a hard job! A long time coming too!), I am told that i am a spammer and a page view hog.  I also tweet and make G+ comments for my group members and some other followers *(as well as the sender of this hate mail) that are misleading and tag stuffing (is that anything like turkey stuffing? Yum!).  I am a

 

  I happen to know all that, Marc. So your “Uh, i only take prescribed medication for cancer and other ailments that i have…” right after your “I am not Michael Mozart” comment is just enough. I had mistakenly thought we were casual friends. I had not realized my sole purpose was to be a statistic in your hit counter.

You asked the other day if you were doing something wrong. The short answer is yes. You are a spammer. The article I told you was bait and switch is just as much a click magnet as the “I do, too!” post. Rather than offering legitimate information, you are sticking your tongue out at those who would click. I told you this a while back with your tag stuffing.

It is a social media tactic which gets people the world over unfriended. They bait people onto their statuses with cryptic or misleading claims only to get people to interact with their pages. Like the person who constantly puts up as a status, “Oh, what a horrible day,” begging the unsuspecting or the legitimate friends to engage them in conversation.

To be quite frank, if I wanted to open a blogging and social media school, I probably could. Problem is, I do not want that as a profession. I only consult for paying clients, as I have enough work of my own to do. It is a large part of the reason I abandoned the group on LinkedIn. I do not have the time to commit to giving free advice to people who are and have been using platforms without reading the instructions and the hosted advice about getting their blogs to perform.

I have made a large effort to slow the number of notifications my friends get as to my content. The ones who want it subscribe directly to me or to the RSS feed.

Here, I frequently share more things which I did not create in order to harness the driving force behind the G+ platform. The majority of my posts are public and not sent to anyone at all. This is the truest effort of someone who never wants to be listed as a spammer, and a large dose of following the advice I give to everyone who pays me.very bad person who has no idea how to use social media – duh!  I’ve been openly stating that for a while now!  I have been at this for almost 4 months now, and the sender of this note for years…

This note was in response to one i sent asking what I did wrong, and why i was being compared to someone else who blogged about something that I work at a compassionate society for.

The following is the note left on G+ to me.  Now, I will not name the originator, and I do welcome them (the non-sexual term so as not to expose her) to respond via a comment (no moderation here!) to any misinformation or missing information that they may deem necessary to this post’s being true, complete and honest, which I strive for in most of my posts (well, the serious ones anyways – some people just have no sense of humor)…

Now, listen here young man!

“  I happen to know all that, Marc. So your “Uh, i only take prescribed medication for cancer and other ailments that i have…” right after your “I am not Michael Mozart” comment is just enough. I had mistakenly thought we were casual friends. I had not realized my sole purpose was to be a statistic in your hit counter.

You asked the other day if you were doing something wrong. The short answer is yes. You are a spammer. The article I told you was bait and switch is just as much a click magnet as the “I do, too!” post. Rather than offering legitimate information, you are sticking your tongue out at those who would click. I told you this a while back with your tag stuffing. 

It is a social media tactic which gets people the world over unfriended. They bait people onto their statuses with cryptic or misleading claims only to get people to interact with their pages. Like the person who constantly puts up as a status, “Oh, what a horrible day,” begging the unsuspecting or the legitimate friends to engage them in conversation.

To be quite frank, if I wanted to open a blogging and social media school, I probably could. Problem is, I do not want that as a profession. I only consult for paying clients, as I have enough work of my own to do. It is a large part of the reason I abandoned the group on LinkedIn. I do not have the time to commit to giving free advice to people who are and have been using platforms without reading the instructions and the hosted advice about getting their blogs to perform.

I have made a large effort to slow the number of notifications my friends get as to my content. The ones who want it subscribe directly to me or to the RSS feed. 

Here, I frequently share more things which I did not create in order to harness the driving force behind the G+ platform. The majority of my posts are public and not sent to anyone at all. This is the truest effort of someone who never wants to be listed as a spammer, and a large dose of following the advice I give to everyone who pays me.”

Now, I am not one to pay someone to give me some tips or help of any kind;  if they don’t have time for me then that’s fine, but there is absolutely no need to talk down to me or my group members.

Now, to all of my LinkedIn group members, please take heart.  This person is more than willing to offer tips to you in exchange for cold, hard cash.

I don't feel sad... but frustrated and rather peeved - take it out on me, not my group members!

And to the originator of this note – leaving it open on the social networking site, you have labelled me as a spammer and a page view hog.  You may be popular and have a good following, and now be sponsored to blog your laptop off, but leaving that note there for all to see is only done so to get people to stay away from me.

 

*note to the originator…

If you had a shred of decency you would take my name off of that  drivel  comment.