I don’t know why I try with social media.

My recent social media site I really like was Threads. I don’t like Threads any more.

Here is something that everyone should know but seems like they don’t, any time you post an opinion, recipe, design, picture, story or basically just anything you are going to have comments on those things. Some of those comments are going to be rude and nasty and some are going to be adversary to your opinion and yes people aren’t going to like your been soup recipe and they are going to ask you for alternatives.

These are all things that have happened to you in real life but in a more subtle way because it has been proven people are nastier on the internet because they don’t know the person they are being nasty to, so they let themselves go and say things they wouldn’t say in real life.

Trust me, there have been studies.

There has also been people lying and printing salacious stories to get a large group of people to like them, or lean to their way of thinking since there has been people and printing. People lie to get sales, big corporations lie to get sales. People like to get likes this is not a new concept.

My example here is Marie Antoinette, she never said ‘Let them eat cake.’ I want to credit the podcast Even the Royals here because this is where I learned this fact. The hosts are Aricia Skidmore-Williams and Brooke Siffrin. They covered this in the first two episodes of their podcast. This was a slander at the time of the rich when they were portrayed for the way they talked about people who were less fortunate than they were. This was used in leaflets that were spread through France to influence people in to thinking that the king and queen did not care about them and what they were going through.

Is any of this the right way to do things? No it isn’t, is it going to continue to happen? Yes it is, is it going to hurt your feelings? Yes it’s going to hurt your feelings sometimes very deeply. Sometimes so much that you will not be able to move on, I get it I understand.

Here is what I don’t understand. The people doing this are craving the attention, it’s why they do it, then you repost this and they get more attention. The reason for this is to put what they said to you out there so everyone else can see how they wronged you, and giving them even more attention.

I will never understand the reasoning behind this behavior and it happens all over the internet. I believe in handling things behind the scenes and if the person I decide to handle it with decides to make it public, (which has happened once in a Facebook knitting group of all places because I dared to stick up for someone.) That’s on them.

Ok I think I have said all I can say about this. What’s funny is this will post to Threads and absolutely no one will read it, however, if I comment on someone else’s post it will get hundreds of likes.

Everyone enjoy your Wednesday.