Post by cally on Oct 24, 2013 12:15:31 GMT 1
I have had the worst day ever on Facebook. Firstly, I am interested in Buddhism and yoga as well as the horse welfare sites, and the funny cats and basically positive stuff; any of you who know me know I've had a pretty traumatic few years, and so I've been choosing sites carefully.
Well, first annoying thing was an American girl, who I believe has a few different accounts, zoomed in and started attacking me about an anti hunting post on a Buddhist site. I was anti, she was illogical and all over the place. I managed to end our 'discussion' by asking her to respond to some really dumb comments she erroneously made about Buddhism (which I studied for a year at uni). So she stopped.
She attacked the Buddhists on the Buddhist site again, and I just asked her why did she keep doing this- what's the point in attacking something you have such set views on, particularly as they're so negative. Then forgot about it.
THEN I came home and there were two abusive messages from a man in India or the sub continent. He repeatedly sent the same story of Gautama Siddhartha's life- it's a huge post, it was the 3rd or 4th identical post and I asked his to stop sending it and explained I wasn't a Buddhist though like some of the philosophies etc. Hours later, he sent me a 'chat message' asking why I wasn't contacting him and so on. Then an hour later, he sent a really abusive threatening message using the foulest language, it was creepy. So I TRIED to report it but Fbook wasn't working properly. So I gave up for the time being, and posted a 'help me!' status comment because this guy solicited for my friendship really hard and then went mental and I thought he should be reported.
Then I checked my stuff- funny cats, friends telling me what they were up to, updates on horse rescues including a very concerning problem with 2 foals in the US who have pneumonia and Star's neighbour had just recovered from it so I was sending questions to ask the vet as well as suggestions as to what to do. Next thing, I see the most traumatic thing ever: a female toddler chained, screaming to a gate or something in Syria supposedly. The next picture shows her dead, naked, with her chest defleshed. Again I try and submit a report to Fbook only to find out that the American girl troll had managed to have me SUSPENDED for 12 hours for suggesting people on the Buddhist site not engage in too many arguments with her!
I have made so many decent acquaintances and now I am going to have to lose them because I have lost my faith in people. I found a site called 'Menopause Matters' and it's run by women instead of doctors and if I hadn't found that site, well I thought I was going mad because the emotional and psychological symptoms of menopause can be catastrophic for some people, and they were for me. Until I found this page, I genuinely thought I was losing my mind. Now I get to help other women and with the added positive messages from the Buddhist and yoga sites as well as the MANY horsey ones, my life had really started to improve and then all this on one day.
I know this is a rant, but I am so incredibly upset. I'm changing medicines over at the moment and today at the horse paddock my heart rate went ballistic and so I just wanted a quiet evening, and instead I've been abused, sworn at, threatened and horrified to the point of throwing up. I can't even talk to anyone else because my friends are overseas and it's too early in the morning and no one wants to hear me blubbing away 1st thing. So I guess I've unloaded on you guys because I know you are all decent people. I can't get over how many people there are out there who aren't- all this in the space of a few hours.
I know you'll probably want to put this in the members only section Claire, but I'm asking you as a friend not to. I need to hear from nice people who I trust especially if they have had any similar issues. If I leave Fbook I lose contact with some great groups and people, but any more trolls etc and I'm finished with it.
Yours in floods of tears still
Cally xxx.
Well, first annoying thing was an American girl, who I believe has a few different accounts, zoomed in and started attacking me about an anti hunting post on a Buddhist site. I was anti, she was illogical and all over the place. I managed to end our 'discussion' by asking her to respond to some really dumb comments she erroneously made about Buddhism (which I studied for a year at uni). So she stopped.
She attacked the Buddhists on the Buddhist site again, and I just asked her why did she keep doing this- what's the point in attacking something you have such set views on, particularly as they're so negative. Then forgot about it.
THEN I came home and there were two abusive messages from a man in India or the sub continent. He repeatedly sent the same story of Gautama Siddhartha's life- it's a huge post, it was the 3rd or 4th identical post and I asked his to stop sending it and explained I wasn't a Buddhist though like some of the philosophies etc. Hours later, he sent me a 'chat message' asking why I wasn't contacting him and so on. Then an hour later, he sent a really abusive threatening message using the foulest language, it was creepy. So I TRIED to report it but Fbook wasn't working properly. So I gave up for the time being, and posted a 'help me!' status comment because this guy solicited for my friendship really hard and then went mental and I thought he should be reported.
Then I checked my stuff- funny cats, friends telling me what they were up to, updates on horse rescues including a very concerning problem with 2 foals in the US who have pneumonia and Star's neighbour had just recovered from it so I was sending questions to ask the vet as well as suggestions as to what to do. Next thing, I see the most traumatic thing ever: a female toddler chained, screaming to a gate or something in Syria supposedly. The next picture shows her dead, naked, with her chest defleshed. Again I try and submit a report to Fbook only to find out that the American girl troll had managed to have me SUSPENDED for 12 hours for suggesting people on the Buddhist site not engage in too many arguments with her!
I have made so many decent acquaintances and now I am going to have to lose them because I have lost my faith in people. I found a site called 'Menopause Matters' and it's run by women instead of doctors and if I hadn't found that site, well I thought I was going mad because the emotional and psychological symptoms of menopause can be catastrophic for some people, and they were for me. Until I found this page, I genuinely thought I was losing my mind. Now I get to help other women and with the added positive messages from the Buddhist and yoga sites as well as the MANY horsey ones, my life had really started to improve and then all this on one day.
I know this is a rant, but I am so incredibly upset. I'm changing medicines over at the moment and today at the horse paddock my heart rate went ballistic and so I just wanted a quiet evening, and instead I've been abused, sworn at, threatened and horrified to the point of throwing up. I can't even talk to anyone else because my friends are overseas and it's too early in the morning and no one wants to hear me blubbing away 1st thing. So I guess I've unloaded on you guys because I know you are all decent people. I can't get over how many people there are out there who aren't- all this in the space of a few hours.
I know you'll probably want to put this in the members only section Claire, but I'm asking you as a friend not to. I need to hear from nice people who I trust especially if they have had any similar issues. If I leave Fbook I lose contact with some great groups and people, but any more trolls etc and I'm finished with it.
Yours in floods of tears still
Cally xxx.