"People Google Us All the Time"

First of all, I'd just like to say that I'm home sick and my head is spinning a little from my cold medicine and I should be in bed, BUT I can't sleep until I say something about the drama surrounding my high school reunion.  If there are any typos, somewhat incoherent sentences, etc., blame it on the med med med med med med. i. cine. Blame it on the...

I know this is off topic, and I haven't written in a couple of months, but when something nags and nags at me, my brain just won't let it go until I get it out. 

So anyway, my 10 year high school reunion was supposed to happen this weekend. However, out of the 80 people who RSVP'd (from our class of 450), only 35 people actually paid, so there wasn't enough money to actually pull the event off. 

When we were told of this news just last Friday, people were of course disappointed, but also seemed eager to help possibly salvage a reunion for another date. 

Then the drama started.

You see, sometimes people like to vent.  I'm one of those people.  And, with the invention of blogs, anyone can say whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want, and publish it online for the whole world to see. It does wonders for freedom of speech. 

Someone in our class wanted to vent and did so on his blog. Another member of our class, found it and posted it on Facebook for us to read.  She was livid.  Here is what she said about the post:

I DID NOT WRITE THIS. I DO NOT KNOW WHO DID. I DON'T LIKE MY NAME ASSOCIATED WITH THINGS LIKE THIS. I THOUGHT Y'ALL WOULD APPRECIATE KNOWING YOUR NAME IS FLOATING OUT THERE IN CYBERSPACE ALONG WITH THIS REDICULOUS ARTICLE. SO, WHO WROTE IT? (This was her comment on the post, the actual post follows. Also, she spelled ridiculous incorrectly. BTW: I don't know how she doesn't know who wrote this. I just found the site and the guy bolded his name in the list! Duh!)

You can read the original blog posting that she posted to start drama by clicking here: http://www.thoughts.swalrus.org/2009/10/the-asshole-tax.html

 

 

I replied that this was obviously written with a satirical/sarcastic tone and I actually found it amusing. Then, another girl replied claiming that she was glad the reunion was cancelled because everyone she graduated with was stuck up and whatever...and the replies went on and on... It was getting very O.C.C. (or "Out Of Control" as Rachel Zoe would say). 

 

So, I posted another long reply basically saying that I didn't know what the crazy girl was talking about when she was calling us, the ones who paid, the ones who cared, stuck up, etc. and I also attempted to explain, again, that the post sent by...let's just call her, "our classmate", was meant to point out the follies of some of our classmates (not us, the ones who paid and cared) by using verbal irony/sarcasm. I suggested we act like adults and just move on.  If we can schedule another reunion, ok. If not, fine.  It doesn't have to be that serious.  It was getting SO high school.

 

"Our classmate" (ahem Christa Crawford) responded back to me that she didn't care if the post wasn't attacking us, it still used name-calling and her husband is a high school teacher and people "google us all the time." I thought that was funny.

 

Seriously? People really google you all the time?

 

People google Beyonce, Michael Jackson, and the President ALL the time. Not you. 'Hate to break it to you, but you're really not that important. In fact, it seems that YOU are the only one who google's yourself ALL the time...otherwise, how else did you find "the one who shall not be named's" blog?

 

I can't wait for the next time she google's herself (I mean other people google her all the time) and she, I mean they, find this. (LOL)

Comments

[Mark]

I wrote it. This is Awesome. Capital A. I wonder why I wasn't involved in the facebook conversation? I also never got any comments on the blog post or emails. Even when the rest of the blog says that if someone doesn't want their name on the list they can tell me.
I think it's great that you didn't point out who I was even though I'm not hiding at all... lol.

Thanks for linking to me and being cool about it. Now that I know we have similar senses of humor, I know I'll have someone to talk to if this reunion ever happens.