Thursday, March 31, 2011

Smoking in the boys' room

Or gossiping in the girls' bathroom. Yes, that's what PFA is all about. Remember in high school when some kids would get together to slag off the others? Only in high school, it was mostly words. Now, people can use the Internet to say things, true or not, about others. And the Internet is forever.

Michael Tonello has been on many, many web sites, promoting his book under various aliases (cute but not exactly forthright now, is it, for someone who is all about "exposing the truth"?) and slagging TPF. Some of the names and things he has said have been printed in the comments here. We encourage you to have a look. We may post screen shots of some of the others.

He has been busy tracking IP addresses and printing people's places of work and home addresses in an environment where others are obviously hostile to those people. Now .... ask yourself. What do you think the point of that might be? It isn't so that they can be remembered at Christmas and anniversaries.

Perhaps Mr. Tonello's next book can be something about multiple (online) personalities. He seems to be an expert.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Speaking of multiple personalities and gossiping in the girls' room, here's Donna Lehtonen, bully on the internet, in action in her own words:

http://www.bagsnob.com/2008/10/_after_all_this_talk.html#comment-66444

Starting midpage, comment on October 21, 2008, at 8:36 pm. The girls on bagsnob documented the hateful bullying and name-calling that went on on her now-private blog, duchessofh.

Why would someone who is supposedly so well off financially care about how many bags someone else has? Why does Donna Lehtonen react as if someone owning more Hermes bags than she does were a personal affront and insult? I wonder if her husband knows what a bully she is to random strangers on the internet. I wonder if he'd continue to stay married to her if he knew. As a fourth wife, Donna has to realize that she's not exactly married to someone who sticks around through thick, thin, and damage suits brought against cyberbullies.

Anonymous said...

you are correct! Her husband would certainly not stay married to her if he only knew the kind of person she really is!