Mentality of a Troll

[Eilonnwy]

@ Eilonwy: A ghastly incident and yet another reason not to publish your day by day life story on the internet, however cute the LJ's, Facebooks, LinkedIns may look.

Well technically it should have been protected, it was a friends only post. It's just the same as if I told something in person to a group of friends and one of those friends started sharing it with everyone, it just happened via internet.

I don't post daily personal details on LJ, but sometimes I do make friends locked posts about more personal things. It's a way for me to reach out to friends since I don't see them that often and I don't call people regularly. That was the first (and only, to my knowledge) where something was leaked from a locked journal entry, and I think it was because the disaster at AB was well-known and a big deal when it happened, I was under more scrutiny than I was aware of. I've since then limited who I friend back on LJ.

You open yourself up to any betrayal when you confide in friends, whether online or in person.

It also goes to show how asshole-ish people are when you do something wrong. I got sent through the ringer when 2008 happened. When 2009 happened and the line was not only short, but shorter and faster than any other anime con of it's size, I did get praise, but 4chan was completely silent. Just further proving that 4chan is just a festering pit of trolls.