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So this is me already breaking my plan of bogging every other Monday, but the most interesting thing happened yesterday (well, not really the most interesting thing, I have kids, they're generally the most interesting thing I deal with daily) Anywho...yesterday I saw a tweet with a quote attributed to an author (henceforth known as super mega famous author or SMFA) and well, despite my own admiration for this SMFA, I didn't agree with the quote attributed to him. So I retweeted it, publicly saying I disagreed with SMFA. NEVER AGAIN. I had a solid ten minutes of freaking out because SMFA I highly admire actually responded to my tweet (though my hubs is certain the response was a backhanded dig) but that ten minutes of freaking out was cut short due to my feed imploding with SMFA's fans all telling me how wrong I was. Now maybe I should have expected that, SMFA is pretty much deified by his fans (I'm a fan, so I understand) but I guess I didn't realize that so many would feel the need to what, stand up for SMFA and his opinion? Either way, I had to shut of my twitter notifications because it was getting ridiculous. Plus, some of them were not nice.
my tweet ^
response from SMFA ^
Here's the thing. We, as humans, are allowed to have opinions. We are allowed to agree to disagree. This is a thing, right? Me disagreeing doesn't mean I don't still admire SMFA (cause I do), it just means we disagree. So if his fans could stop coming into my feed and telling me how wrong I am just cause I disagree with him, yeah that'd be nice.
Also, it's already been established that I disagree with him, so if his reply is a burn at me, I don't care. So all the "boom" "mic drop" and "get it" tweets...who are those for? Is that you wanting to be part of a conversation? Do you really think I care that SMFA thinks he should pity me? I mean, I tend to be really curious about social interactions and why people do the things they do, so curious minds are curious. What do you get out of that?