This post by Christina Katz originally appeared on The Christina Katz Writing & Publishing Studio on 2/18/15.
I am always encouraging my students to turn their lemon life experiences into written lemonade. And this is me following my own advice.
I was persecuted and harassed in a huge online community yesterday, and lemme tell you, it was WEIRD.
The person doing the bullying seemed quite fixated on me and was following me around as I moved from group to group, offering me chastisements in a private Facebook message thread that she initiated.
I persistently asked to understand what her issue was with me, and my question was never answered.
The only comment that came close was, “I want you to buy into what I’m trying to do, that’s all.”
Sooo, yeah. Let’s just say chasing me around on social media is not a good way to get me to buy into to WHATEVER you are trying to do. Especially when you fail to communicate to me what that is.
In the end, I could not reconcile with the person, so I left a group she facilitated that I was part of, and reported her to the folks responsible for the larger groups’ existence.
But I did not get away from her before she took some totally uncalled for swipes at me.
Read the full post on The Christina Katz Writing & Publishing Studio.