I can't say I've ever been one to hold a grudge. Heck I forgave my boyfriend after even cheating on me. I've had bosses who tried to pin things on me to get me fired, coworkers who have pulled stunts who got me in some serious trouble, and people who have bad mouthed me to the point where it honestly hurt. Today if any of those people needed help, I'd still stand up and help them out if I could. Why? I don't know. Maybe I'm a bigger person then most, maybe I'm TOO forgiving.. Who knows.
I say this because of Facebook. I have been on the internet since I was 12 years old. Way back when EVERYONE used AOL 3.1 (Remember having to wait to connect to the server using 56K modems????). Facebook has become a place to connect with old friends, old enemies, family that you may or may not want to find, and coworkers as well. It can be an amazing place. I use it to keep in touch with a lot of my online friends across the country that if I didn't have them on Facebook, I may never hear from them again.
What I don't understand is calling out people on Facebook because you have an issue with them. Calling someone a "Stupid C***" and a "Raging Whore" on Facebook is not only point less "OH I called you a name online!!! Go me!" but what's actually happens to a person to bring this type of behavior out of a person? I can understand setting a record straight on Facebook with your friends like "I didn't have sexual relations with that woman!" But I don't see the point to actually trash talk another person on such a public place or even on your private wall. How can you be so disrespectful to yourself and to that person, no matter what they did.
Like this thing with Osama being killed. Don't get me wrong, I can say I'm happy be is gone from this earth but people celebrating in the streets, posting statuses about his death in a demising way. Even our military men and women had enough respect for the guy to give him a OK funeral that would be ok with his religion. The man who they have been hunting for the past 10 years and they still treated him with some respect, and thats far more respect then we give to each other online.
These are thoughts that go through my head as the days go pass. As the sayings say "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." and "Treat others the way you want to be treated". Maybe if more people lived these rules life would be just a tad simpler for the rest of us.
