I must be…

so naive. Here I thought scrapbooking was something fun to share with friends, meet new people online and off, and just have an all around good time and create. I have had wonderful experiences and have met a ton of new friends and have been enjoying myself in my own little world I guess. Never did I think that scrapbookers could be so cruel. Goes to show you that I am very unobservant. Maybe I should explain myself a bit better.

I recently found out that an online friend of mine, I didn’t know her all that well but she was/is very sweet and was looking forward to getting to know her but I don’t think that will happen now, ok getting off the subject, anyway I found out that she was attacked on a smack scrap blog! Can you believe it? I will not post a link because I think it is petty. I did not even know a thing like this existed, hence me being so naive.  I’m ashamed of myself because I actually sat and read some of this stuff. I was so shocked. I felt like I was in grade school all over again. And they do all of this anonymously. Now I’m all for freedom of speech but at least have the guts to say who you are if you’re going to bash someone else’s stuff. Better yet, take my moms’ advice, if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

And in all of this they still call themselves scrapbookers! I’d like to know how they can create with such pettiness inside of them. I’m sorry if you didn’t make it for a DT call that you wanted but don’t bash the people that did! It even went so far as bashing my friends blog and the way she looked! It has bothered her so much that she has taken herself almost completely offline. Now come on, was that really called for? All she ever did was put herself out there for others to enjoy and someone had to go and ruin it for her.

Now I have no intention of putting my blog to private. If you don’t like what I say, don’t read it. Same goes for what I create, if you don’t like it,  don’t look at it. Which I guess is also true for that scrap smack blog-which is why I choose to never read it again. The difference is I don’t bash fellow scrapbookers (or anyone else for that matter) or the industry. To do that and still say you are a scrapbooker is an insult to all of us who truly are. That is not to say that I won’t voice my opinion but I will do it tactfully. I also put my name on everything I say and will continue to do so . I’m not afraid. If you want to bash me, go for it. Makes me feel sorry for you that you feel you have to go around finding fault in everyone else to make yourself feel better.

Thanks to my friends and the five people who may actually read this blog I needed to vent. This really got to me and I had to get it out.

Edit – I just realized after posting this that I in fact did exactly what I was complaining about the smack site doing. Please note that the words above are not intended to bash them as a group nor the site itself, it just upset me so and had no other words coming out to express it.