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Thought about it for 2 seconds.

Like many other bloggers, I've thought about calling it quits, shutting down my blogs, quitting working online, just getting off of here and not coming back.
Every blogger who quits has their reasons, but the most stated reason is that other bloggers had finally gotten to them, and they just couldn't deal with it anymore.

Lately I've been under some fire, some pressure, from various people, other bloggers, because of how and what I post here on my blog, and how I do my job on a forum.
I've read the criticisms about my blog, and while I don't agree with everything that has been said, I do agree with some of it.
I know that I post TMI (too much information) sometimes, I know that I post things that other people would never post about, but I also have my own fine line that I never cross.
Believe me, I've come very close to posting certain things about myself and my life, and then I realized that I was at my own line and decided to not cross it.
What my line is isn't important, but I do have one.

I've been upset for the last 24 hours or so because of some things that are being said by another blogger who knows absolutely nothing at all about me, doesn't even interact with me on those forums, but she's got a bee in her breeches that she has me all figured out.
She seems damn proud of herself at the moment too, she is under the impression that I am committing Munchhausen by internet, committing emotional fraud, always looking for attention, and that I'm always on that forum saying "Look at me! Look at me!" because I post a lot.
I wrote about this yesterday, because like I said, it is bothering me, but not for the reasons people may be thinking it is.
I'm not upset because gosh darn it, she's got me all figured out, that I'm always wanting attention and dying for people to notice me, that I've put myself in a position of authority because I want or like the attention, no, I'm upset because that's what she thinks, and that's not what the facts are.

I didn't put myself in a position of authority, I can not put the name "moderator" under my own name on those forums, the owners of said forum put that there after asking me to do that job.
It is my job to interact in the threads where people are asking questions, where people want an answer to a question.
It is my job to be there on those forums and respond to people.
Does anyone think it's easy being the only person on a forum with the mod title under their name?
Does anyone have any idea how hard it can be?
I have to deal with all of the questions, all of the problems, and I have to try and get answers to those problems, try to get answers to those problems day after day, week after week, and sometimes the answers I'm given are the wrong ones, and sometimes the answers I post are the wrong ones, and I try like hell to correct the wrong answers when I can, when I've learned the right answers.
I have to deal with angry people, upset people, people who think they should get their problem dealt with before everyone else, people who complain, and so on.
But yay, now she knows, now she knows that I'm committing emotional fraud, that I'm a sad, pathetic, wannabe center of attention, and now she feels sorry for me because now it saddens her, and now she'll be more thoughtful, suspicious even, and more understanding in the future when she sees me post in every thread.
And now she'll probably delete that post too.

I know that by posting this I stand to get some flack, some more heat, may have more people angry with me, but I'm tired of people making assumptions about me, tired of people saying untruths about me.
Instead of thinking I inserted myself, why don't they just ask the owners who asked me to do the job, if they did ask me to do it.

Comments

I am sorry to hear that people are giving you static for doing your job. I have been reading your blog for awhile now. I have never thought for one second anything you have wrote was because you were seeking attention. I don't know you personally, but from what I read, I think you are a genuine person. You are not fake in anyway. When you have something to say, you tell it like you see it. I enjoy it very much and it will suck if you do ever decide to hang it up, but I'll understand if you do. Thanks for sharing the part of your life that you do.

It is sad when someone you don't know personally cares little to nothing to assume what type of individual you are. I know(because I actually know you) that you would rather be out and about holding down a job outside of the house than to have to be cooped up in your home and doing jobs from the computer. I know that for many years that is what you have done. I also know that your blog is your outlet. You have control over what you put on your blog.
I feel bad that you have to endure the ignorance of people that do not have one iota of a clue of what your life is really like. Furthermore, you have nothing to prove to anyone! So... just go on being you and let the ignorant stay that way. That is what they choose to do.

Kat, anyone who gives you crap about your blog doesn't understand the first thing about blogging. It's a one-sided opinion that you are sharing and you can say whatever the hell you want. LOL. I support you. Keep on blogging, girl.

jeez, like you need any more grief.... let it go, they are just being ignorant or jealous....weird huh? i want you to know that your beliefs are not my beliefs, but over time, reading your blogs, i can tell that you are a decent person, and the best mom you can be and cannot imagine all your health issues and making it work. take care.....

Wow Kat! Please don't stop. Isn't that what blogging is all about? Giving your thoughts and opinions on what you chose?!?! I think some people just have too much time on their hands. Please don't stop. I'm already not looking forward to the time you will be off after your next surgery.

The downside about trollish type people is that they can make it seem like there are more of them than there are, and their accusations go to extremes. They are not reality, and they are not working with reality. Wonder what she's projecting or struggling with in herself?


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