Going to break my no-blogs-on-the-weekend rule. A few hackers/spammers have bothered me. I know that’s a risk of advertising, but it seems like vandalizing a company just because you don’t like their ads. I don’t like most ads or paying bills either, but it doesn’t give me the right to be a jerk. Ads are the reason FB exists.
I’ll accept angry or critical comments on my professional FB site, but some I just delete. I tried to block a guy today who actually boasts about being a hacker. One of my composition students who seemed bright argued without qualification in favor of hacking, and this guy certainly seems to think he’s doing the Lord’s work. To me, hacking is possibly crime and at least really rude.
My angry response to him was if you don’t like ads or paying bills, get off FB and move to a socialist country. Maybe I should have said a communist country. Or maybe just stop engaging with jerks. Pax vobiscum.