Will I need to leave the Internet?
I saw a woman I once knew on Facebook and LinkedIn recently. This was someone who hurt me badly when I was young and got away with it. The publicly available pictures showed her and her current husband as fit, rich and smiling with a beautiful landscape in the background. It’s clear she is building where she appears to be a wonderful squeaky clean upstanding human being.
I know Facebook and sites like it are just like that. An opportunity for anyone to present their life as being great. But there’s no telling the horrible truth about her or what she did. No warning others about her. I could try to tell the truth about her of course all that might do is make me seem like someone out to get even or it might invite an expensive lawsuit by her against me, however unjust - because she has big money and potentially a fragile ego and all that.
I always worked for an Internet of as much absolute truth as possible and fairness and one that would promote only the best, kindest people. But in this case the bad actor is winning and being promoted instead without constraint. It’s so wrong. The worst part is there’s ni recourse to counter her deceit.
As an online worker myself, I still do all the good I can do to support all good things I can online but because of this woman, I am starting to lose hope for the online world. What’s the point in sticking around if the risk of getting involved with such horrible people is allowed to grow to the point where all the good people are gone and her kind are all that’s left?
I know Facebook and sites like it are just like that. An opportunity for anyone to present their life as being great. But there’s no telling the horrible truth about her or what she did. No warning others about her. I could try to tell the truth about her of course all that might do is make me seem like someone out to get even or it might invite an expensive lawsuit by her against me, however unjust - because she has big money and potentially a fragile ego and all that.
I always worked for an Internet of as much absolute truth as possible and fairness and one that would promote only the best, kindest people. But in this case the bad actor is winning and being promoted instead without constraint. It’s so wrong. The worst part is there’s ni recourse to counter her deceit.
As an online worker myself, I still do all the good I can do to support all good things I can online but because of this woman, I am starting to lose hope for the online world. What’s the point in sticking around if the risk of getting involved with such horrible people is allowed to grow to the point where all the good people are gone and her kind are all that’s left?