The internet can sometimes be a scary place. I said the other day that I didn’t want to talk about what all went down on Twitter/The Blog World last week. And I still really don’t. I’m sure y’all have read or at least heard about all the drama revolving around Nic and the whole TSA incident. If you haven’t, good blogs to read to catch up are Jenn’s and Lu’s. I don’t want to get into the whole thing or state my piece. Instead I just wanted to say how much I hate being lied to. Whether it’s people I see daily or people I know through the internet. I hate being lied to. Especially when it’s someone who I consider a friend. And MOST especially when I spread the story myself along with hundreds of others. The sad thing is that this isn’t the first time this has happened to me. I’ve been duped before. I’ve been hurt before. But I stuck around and continued to have a life online because I didn’t want to give up all the good things/people I had found for a handful of people who tried to ruin that. I will say though that this whole thing has made me once again reevaluate my online life. No, I’m not making my blog private again. Don’t worry. Lol. BUT I did make my Twitter private. That was a big step for me but I felt it was necessary. I’m trying to hone down on what’s really important to me. Being online is important to me. I’ve made such awesome friends and have had SO much support over the past few years FROM these friends and even strangers. I’m not willing to give that up. However I AM willing to think about things more. Think twice before I say something on here. Think twice before I’m so trusting of someone. I’m the kind of person who gives people the benefit of the doubt usually. Until you give me a reason to not trust what you’re saying, I’m going to believe you for the most part. I’m skeptical of some people but if someone that I meet is friends with people I’m friends with and I feel like they have no reason to make up stuff, I believe things they say. And when I find out it’s not true, it’s so sad. It’s upsetting. It makes me wonder why I DO trust so many. Hence making my Twitter private. That act in itself made me feel so much better. I blog in a public blog, yes. But that’s once a day and believe it or not, I don’t share THAT much about my life here. But on Twitter…I’m on there all day and I say random things without really thinking about who exactly is reading it.

Issa blogged yesterday about missing why exactly we started blogging to begin with. We both started blogging around the same time. And we’ve been friends from then on. We both want to get back to that. The love of blogging/reading blogs and not being so sucked into Twitter or the drama that surrounds it.