Friday, July 30, 2010
Strawberry Jams
I hate jams. Officially I hate jams. I mean yeah everyone always complains about jams, but there is no real reason why a jam should even really exist? Sure it's raining, and everyone slows down, but so what? Let's all slow down together! For goodness sake I just got stuck in a jam for 2 1/2 hours, doing nothing except listening to The Naked Scientist and reviewing my Introduction to Microbiology lecture. I even memorized all the names of the bacteria that are Gram-positive cocci etc etc...
And also how to conduct tests to confirm the presence of an infectious agent in your system.
Anyway apart from doing all that, I was also thinking: why is it that people bitch about other people on their blog? Right, right?? Isn't it such an endearing topic... in the sense that it's really interesting. So friend A has a dispute with friend B, and then friend A writes something really nasty that she doesn't really mean anyway because she's just saying it all out of anger and spite on her blog. And because blogs are generally public, friend B sees it and the whole thing just blows up shit in everyones faces. This is because essentially friend A is confronting friend B and ranting and saying everything she doesn't dare say in front of B. Which is in itself cowardly, and unreasonable.
I'm not basing any of this on personal experience, I am creating a completely fictional scenario which I'm pretty sure has happened on numerous occasions. Think about it - do you have any friends with similar stories? It's common; and why? Because A doesn't have enough common sense to just say it to B's face and discuss it like normal rational adults, despite what the dispute was about. A has just made B look extremely bad on her blog, which anyone can read. And believe me, once someone has read it, it must take all that person's willpower not to pass it on to the next person and to the next person and before you know it, the entire school knows about how B slept with A's boyfriend.
And all this is unfair, because noone even knows B's side of the story! And who knows, A might just be making it up just because she's jealous of B. And once again, this is all made up, but I can really totally seeing this happening. And now B is left embarrassed and stigmatized by everyone in school just because of something that is of a biased nature to begin with or... maybe didn't even happen.
So, please, no matter how angry you are, STOP and think about your friendship with B, and how bombing her on your blog will not help anything, or anyone, and in fact will just make matters worse. Sure, you might seem like you want to make matters worse by embarrassing her, but why the hell would you do that?! Give her a chance to explain herself. And even if B is totally in the wrong and a total skank, why waste your time and internet? Phase her out of your life and that is that.
Really.
I once again emphasize on how no one slept with anybody elses boyfriend. Serious.
// posted by Alicia @ 8:02 PM 
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But... blueberry jam....
At any rate, blogs in general give a biased view: one from the person writing them. There is nothing wrong with posting your opinion. For the full story, people reading should read person B's blog too, or confront them about it
At any rate, blogs in general give a biased view: one from the person writing them. There is nothing wrong with posting your opinion. For the full story, people reading should read person B's blog too, or confront them about it
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