I want to thank all of you who stood up for me against the anonymous commenter on my blog yesterdayI had written a post about animalsAnd animal abuseAnd was promptly told that I was a hypocrite because I eat meatI went back and deleted a lot of the post because I didn't want any more comments in the same vein Some of you lovely ladies jumped to my defenceAnd I am so grateful for that
It's no secret that I love animalsAnd my dogs are my whole worldBut I'm also recovering from a life threatening eating disorder I am not in the habit of cutting out whiole food groupsAs that plays in to my EDWhen I was growing upI thought long and hard about becoming vegetarian And was one for a short whileBut I was so active And wasn't getting enough nutrition from other foodsSo I went back to eating meat
It's very easy for an anonymous commenter to say their piece They are hiding behind the anonymity of a computer screenSafe on the knowledge that their identity is well guarded secretIt's easy to point the fingerTo point out what someone is doing is wrong And to say it in a sarcastic and cutting toneDon't get me wrong I'm a big girlAnd can handle such comments 99% of the comments I get are positive, well considered and thoughtful It's only the very odd comment that is nastyAnd of course it's always written anonymously
I write my blog every daySo I guess I am bound to piss someone off at some pointAs a bloggerI put myself out there for the world to seeAnd to judgeAs I move on in recoveryI write less and less about my illnessAnd more about my life outside my EDAs you know I am honest hereMore honest than I am in any other area of my lifeAnd I am open to ridicule hereAs is any blogger or vlogger Or any one who has a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram accountPeople seem to love to take others down a peg or twoAnd point out what they are doing or saying wrong I guess that's life thoughYou can't please all of the people all of the time
I'm so grateful to have genuine friends hereWho know meAnd know that I try my best to be a good and honest personI don't claim to be a saintOr anything like oneI make mistakes Usually on a daily basisIt's just that my mistakes are posted on the Internet for all and sundry to seeGod knows I am far from perfectAnd I don't try to be I am human I am a girl trying to recover from severe addiction and a chronic eating disorder Forgive me if I choose to eat For a long time I deprived myself of food I guess I was a vegetarian by default As meat was one of the foods that I avoided NowI choose to have a varied dietIncluding meatAnd I don't apologize for that That does not mean that I can't be an animal loverOf course I can As I wrote yesterday I feel a great affinity with animalsMore so than with humans a lot of the timeSo please anonymousDon't tell me what is and isn't right for meOnly I can decide that This matter has got me thinking about the Internet And social mediaAnd how we post so much of our lives onlineEverything we doEverything we eatEvery feeling we feelEvery highAnd every lowI am not a huge FacebookerAnd don't use Tumblr, Twitter or InstagramI use my blog to document my lifeHowever I am thinking of opening a Twitter accountJust as another facet to my writingBut posting every little thing we doIs it a good idea?Sometimes i take an odd look at FBSome of the stuff on there is interesting, funny or thought provokingBut there is also an awful lot of crap on there And you have to sift through a lot of it to get to the good stuffI blog because I love to writeAnd I love to have my life documented It is such a roller coaster And it's nice to have it all recordedWith photos tooI read back over it sometimes And it's like reading about someone elseIt's very strange But amazing also
With all that said I was wondering about you Do you use any other social media?Why or why not?Do you think it's healthy to post so much about ourselves?Why or why not?Have you ever been the target of abuse from anonymous commenters?How did you deal with it?Answers on a postcard please.....