Brave Tech World

November 1, 2006

    Fact: 99.99% of Internet users are nice people, just want to have fun when reading, posting or leaving a comment on the Internet. But then, there are 500,000,000 Internet users in the world, so, there are at least 50,000 idiots out there just waiting to screw with you.

    I've been hit twice. The first time was because a friend of mine (Kelly Smith) got targeted by an idiot that thought he stolled his web site design (turns out that the designer used an 'open' template). I had nothing to do with it, but since Kelly had recently written about me and Sampa, people started bashing me as well. These usually occur in the form of threatening or very offensive emails and blog posts.

    The second time I was hit was about a post where I wrote that I think using XHTML is a waste of time. Can you believe people would feel so annoyed by it that they would threaten me? But that is what happened. I've got about 50 comments/emails calling me all kinds of name and wishing me all kinds of bad stuff. (That is what you get to be on Digg's homepage).

    Anyway, I was just reading Michael Arrington latest debacle (can I call it that, Michael?). He has been hit a few times. The only thing that I can think of is that this is making him stronger and with thicker skin. That is what happened to me.

    The only thing I can suggest is for you to either get a thick skin and be prepared to receive absurds, offensive and threatening emails, or, just close your site, close your blog, take your pictures and videos out of the Internet and never share anything online.

Comments (1) for "Do you have thick skin? If n...

That's tough. Once someone wrote a really rude comment in my blog just because I'm Brazilian and in his opinion I should not write in English. Hard to believe someone thinks like that... By Flavia Amaral - 11/2/2006 2:03 AM