Friends, people mute & block people on Twitter all the times for a variety of reasons.
Just because someone is on Twitter doesn't mean everyone gets access to them. We get to set our own boundaries about our interactions
So, don't email someone asking them to unblock you.
Just because someone is on Twitter doesn't mean everyone gets access to them. We get to set our own boundaries about our interactions
So, don't email someone asking them to unblock you.
And definitely, don't email someone asking them to unblock someone else, especially after that someone was a serious jerk.
There are consequences for being a jerk on the internet.
Don't enable continued jerkiness.
There are consequences for being a jerk on the internet.
Don't enable continued jerkiness.
And I say this as someone who blocks folks for being jerks, but also as someone who has been blocked before because I was a jerk.
That someone got to determine that I wasn't someone that they wanted to interact with anymore, and that's okay.
That someone got to determine that I wasn't someone that they wanted to interact with anymore, and that's okay.
I mean, I lived through it and learned a lesson.
I did not email the person who blocked me asking why they did it or asking for a reprieve because that, my friends, is not cool.
I did not email the person who blocked me asking why they did it or asking for a reprieve because that, my friends, is not cool.
Additionally, most of us have jerks that we have to deal with in our day-to-day lives.
So, why would we deal with online jerks when we don't have to?
So, why would we deal with online jerks when we don't have to?
And let's not pretend that we don't wish for a mute or block function in face-to-face interactions.
TL;DR: There are consequences for being a jerk online. It is completely okay to mute or block jerks.
It is completely not okay to email asking to not be blocked anymore.
It is completely not okay to email asking to not be blocked anymore.
Also, just because someone seems like a lovely person in face-to-face interactions doesn't mean that they aren't a raging jerk online.
Some folks are under the mistaken impression that jerkiness online doesn't have real life consequences. Uh, they do.
Some folks are under the mistaken impression that jerkiness online doesn't have real life consequences. Uh, they do.
"Don't be a jerk" is a Baker family rule/goal.
We still have moments when we act like jerks (because everybody does), but we try valiantly to avoid jerkiness in general.
We still have moments when we act like jerks (because everybody does), but we try valiantly to avoid jerkiness in general.
The grown-up version of this Baker family/rule is "Don't be an asshole."
So, yeah, don't be one.
So, yeah, don't be one.
Okay, okay, last thing, I promise:
Maybe, if you decide to email someone about something that happened on Twitter, take a moment or 10 and think about whether you would want to *receive* the kind of email that you are about to send.
Maybe, if you decide to email someone about something that happened on Twitter, take a moment or 10 and think about whether you would want to *receive* the kind of email that you are about to send.
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