Hi everybody in Simland!

My name is Laughingcrow and I want to tell you about something that happened to me last night on a Sims 3 Facebook page.

For the past three months I have been making and sharing my Sims 3 houses and lots with these people.  I've been kind and supportive.  I've helped and cared about them, even though I didn't know them.

A week ago, several people asked me to start a Tumblr page for my houses and share the link so they could follow me.  I did.  No one followed.  So I started a Facebook page and shared the link...five people followed but the page was largely ignored.

Last night, sick from a tetunus shot, I posted how disappointed I was that no one had liked my page.  (wouldn't you be?)  Immediately there was a flood of mean girl comments that included the accusation that I was being entitled to something I didn't deserve, and a host of horrible unkind gifs.  Every answer I gave them was yet followed by another accusation of entitlement.  I do not feel entitled...I wanted the people who promised they'd follow me, to hold up their end of the bargain and keep their promise. 

Finally, before heading off to bed, I deleted the whole post...and found that five more lovely souls had followed my page.  This morning I thanked them properly and explained about the post from last night and promised to block anyone guilty of bullying anyone on my page.

Why are people so aggresively nasty online?  And to people they don't even know?  Because it's someone they don't know.  If they knew me, could talk with me face to face, they wouldn't be so quick to be unkind.  That's the trouble with social media, isn't it?

So, if anyone would like to talk, let's talk.

Lots of love!  Laughingcrow