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Okay my darlings, I have a question of etiquette for you. I apologise if this questions seems a little opaque but I know some of you who read this in RL and I'm trying to be tactful..
If you read something in an LJ of another person which happens to be about a friend of yours and which you think is:
a) derogatory and unfair and;
b) is not factually correct;
would it be okay to tell the friend about whom the comment has been made, about the post?
Both the owner of the LJ and the friend mentioned in the LJ post are people I know in RL.
I should also add that the person who owns the LJ and who has made the comment thinks I hate them and complained when I friended their LJ. I de-friended but I do still read their LJ because it has a kind of train-wreck fascination. For the record I don't actually hate them, I just find them somewhat delusional and there is a bit of a personality clash.
Normally I'd ignore this type of thing but the comments made are particularly unfair in this case and I'm irritated but wary of causing even more trouble.
Any comments, suggestions or thoughts welcome.
[Sub-question: Am I bad person for reading the public LJ of someone who asked me to de-friend them?]
If you read something in an LJ of another person which happens to be about a friend of yours and which you think is:
a) derogatory and unfair and;
b) is not factually correct;
would it be okay to tell the friend about whom the comment has been made, about the post?
Both the owner of the LJ and the friend mentioned in the LJ post are people I know in RL.
I should also add that the person who owns the LJ and who has made the comment thinks I hate them and complained when I friended their LJ. I de-friended but I do still read their LJ because it has a kind of train-wreck fascination. For the record I don't actually hate them, I just find them somewhat delusional and there is a bit of a personality clash.
Normally I'd ignore this type of thing but the comments made are particularly unfair in this case and I'm irritated but wary of causing even more trouble.
Any comments, suggestions or thoughts welcome.
[Sub-question: Am I bad person for reading the public LJ of someone who asked me to de-friend them?]
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I realised immediately after I posted that I knew exactly who you were talking about. Yes, she's off on one again.
The last time she went off on one (Mar 18th) was about her partner, who I thought she had misrepresented rather more than usual. I posted, more fool me, and got the predictable response from her entourage and from herself. Interestingly, the person who is the subject of this latest delusional episode had a chat with me when the dust settled, and told me that she'd claimed she was 'only joking'. Well, that's all right then. isn't it?
I *must* stop reading her LJ...
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Okay well if you've seen the post..
Do you think its' worth saying anything to the friend in question who is she is talking about? Only its utter bollox what she's said. I know the ex in question as well and that statement has been taken completely out of context.
Gah! No your right, maybe I should also stop reading that LJ.
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I'd say yes, you probably should mention it. He'll no doubt discount it as "just one of those things that she posts", which is a coping strategy of sorts (in fact, his response is most likely to be "Mneh *shrug*"). You're more likely to get a favourable reaction from him than I am, I think.
What worries me is that there are people in the local scene whose entire knowledge of some people seems to be based on what this person has posted in her LJ.