We Are SO Not Like That! (Thank Goodness!)

Kathy,

 I love Active Rain, and if someone leaves a snarky comment I delete it, as you say those people usually do last long here and sometimes I wonder why leave a comment if you can't be nice! 

I am anxious to return to a time when our interaction with one another isn's something akin to what it may have been like in the stoneage.

Kathy,

I have been thinking about your post as we went to do our long time ignored errands because of our work.  I think sometimes when someone tells the truth to someone else even in a nice way, they cannot handle it, because they have been lied to for so many years.  I have seen kids who are convinced they can sing because their parents doted on them and they could no wrong.  A professional coach the parents hired to get the little darling ready for the La Scala opera house, told them the kid had no talent whatsoever.  He left, and they accused him of being snarky and not knowing what he was talking about.  And that kid still thinks they are La Scala bound...sometimes nice is not nice at all.  A

Yeah I have no stomach or patience for the way people treat each other sometimes in those groups.  People can be far too quick to attack these days.

Well said Kathy Streib. We can't possibly agree on everything, does not give anyone the right to be just nasty.  Calling others names only shows the character of the individual.

Kathy I've had that experience as well but the folks never got 'nicer'.  I left the group because there is no reason to be so darn nasty as some of them were. I just don't hang wiht folks like that.

There is very little tolerance of bad behavior here -hallelujah- but some people who I liked are gone and I miss them. I think they were generally quirky and lackeda filter or judgment rather than being nasty. Do you think they can ever be redeemed- or if they want to be!

Ugh!  Just run.  Nice gets nice and you don't want to hang with people who think otherwise!

Morning Kathy.

It took me awhile to learn that lesson after my former career. Now, bashing someone or being mean is just not for me.  It's called life, get over it or move on to somewhere else

Kathy Streib Like I tell my kids, Garbage in Garbage Out. If you participate in that kind of behavior, it will show.

So - have you left that group? Hanging out with nasty people is bad for your energy.

Like you, I am SO glad we are not like that.

That's one of the reasons that I took a HUGE break from the AR platform.  I just didn't have the energy for the snarkiness anymore!  I'm so glad that you've pointed this out - hopefully people will stop and think a little more before they post.

Who has time for that negative BS?  Glad you  moved on. That sort of thing can be such a time waster

Couldn't agree more.  I learned early on that respecting each other is an ActiveRain bible moment!  Great post!

Kathy, I've left some FB groups for those reasons. Makes me cringe when people are nasty to each other just because they don't agree. I've always liked the Rain because there's so little of that.