Info on John and 23-7

[MissBlue]

well - my take on that is this - ALL internet bb's, regardless of the topic or subject matter, have that stuff going on. All of them. just in slightly different ways. It's just the nature of the beast when it comes to anonymous information-sharing.

so yes, it is all taken in stride -- just as IRL there are always some ppl who aren't nice, the same is true online. in any given forum there's mostly good folks who are well-intentioned and speak from their hearts - and there also can be some badmind folks, and/or some mean & nasty folks, and/or some who are just altogether nuts..... mostly true info, some misinformation even from those who mean well but just really don't know - some outright wrong information, and even some that is maliciously-intentioned ..... that's just life, on or off the internet. There's no possible way to separate ALL the wheat from the chaff, when it comes to what one reads on a bulletin board -- until one sees for themself, in person, what's true and what's not.

i personally think it's a foolish, and maybe even dangerous, habit to believe unconditionally in everything one reads on the net - good OR bad. I've seen the look on MANY people's faces, not solely jamaicans -- when they are the subject of internet badmindedness or falsity. It's part and parcel of what all people have to deal with, now that the internet bulletin boards are part of our reality. ppl cannot take every comment made to heart, or take it so personally like it is an 'attack" -- most times it's not, and there's just no need to get all bent out of shape, or give energy to, some stranger's dumb, or uneducated, or misinformed, or even malicious - comments in a 'room' that is not even 'real'.

What some somebody who doesn't even know me has to say, no matter how objectionable i might find it to be - really just doesn't matter in my actual daily life. *shrug*