Internet gone crazy?

**M* D* <m*@gmail.com>**

Hi Chris -

I can give you a philosophical response and some sympathy.
Everything you put on the Internet is public. People can appreciate,
applaud, correct and find fault. Usually, they act with you the way they act
with anyone in their lives.

Your public persona gives them access to you. Stress is running pretty high
and the lack of money is making some people pretty grumpy.

You said, "The pervasive thanklessness and sense of entitlement for free
stuff shocks me."
Me, too.

Hopefully, you get enough intellectual and financial benefit from your
writing to continue despite a few unhappy interactions.

Maybe next week you will get enough hurrah responses to make up for this
week.
Martha (pen name Molly Day)

"I forgive you everything and there is nothing to forgive" G. Stein
**
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey <topica.com@
spamfodder.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure what's going on, but I had someone call me on my cell phone
> yesterday to deride me for misspelling 'hawthorn' (I had an 'e' on the
> end).
>
> Then some woman emailed me today to say that she's blocking my site
> and will never visit again because she got a popup window asking her
> to enable the ads that she was blocking from my our site.  There were
> a few expletives thrown in, too.
>
> I think the Internet has gone crazy.
>
> I've never seen this kind of visceral, rabid reaction to online content
> before.  The pervsasive thanklessness and sense of entitlement for free
> stuff shocks me.  Next think you know people will complain because I have
> copyright notices on my images.
>
> Are any of you running into these Internet zombie hoards?
>
> Chris
>
>
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