So someone I blocked long time ago is following my account some other way, taking screenshots of my tweets out of context, and sharing with their followers along with hostile comments. Is that not harassment?
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I have never tweeted about any single person by name unfollowing me except you cos you blocked me after being really bizarre/creepy. Anyway, if that person is scared of me that's awful and I don't know what to say. If you have ideas to help them feel safer on Twitter let me know.
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With respect to DMs I get about you, well, let's just say you go beyond a single person telling me they are scared of you. And again like I sad that is sad these things happen — if you also agree that that's awful we're at a good starting point.
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I know some people are scared of me. Always people who never met me in real life. Twitter is a good place for polarization and getting upset or scared about people you might like perfectly fine if you met them. Actually one belief behind my reason not to block.
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Twitter is real life.
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I remember noting this guy had a following early on when I started with Twitter and I quickly took this as a lesson how a person can put on a veneer of calm and wisdom and many people might like them but they can still be full of shit and act like an ass.
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Oh I had forgotten! Thanks for proving me wrong. I no longer block people (only 1 exception) but must have tried in the past. Didn't remember. I can then tell the several people who told me they are too scared to unfollow you they should be fine as long as they don't block you?
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Only a year and a half ago. My memory is really getting bad that I had completely forgotten about this... I do remember experimenting. But on topic; I had decided not to block people and agree with
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I respect people blocking me and people unfollowing me. If they block me after a debate like ours and they are like you are a prof, I might mock them. Bu tI assume you are talking about fellow ERCs and students? People who are not tweeting me to tell me weird stuff?
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Why have you turned this into being about how I am scary though? You realise your name is pretty much number one on the list of name I get in the whisper network of women scared of your Twitter BS right?
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I know, had a friend in that network who kept me informed. I sometimes reach out to some people who feel like that. I think I was trying to point out things easily get out of hand on twitter for everyone.
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Two things: 1) Sure. Well, if there is anything I can do to make these profs who are scared me feel better let me know and I'll decide if their requests are sensible given the power dynamics. It's vague what you said so I am replying with a general statement about power here.
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2) That's a kind of creepy thing to say and probably (definitely?) makes people scared. Already have exactly that from people who are horrified you think saying that you have an informant within their private discussions is not scary.
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I said we had shared friends. You talked to people who also talked to me. That should hardly be surprising? No need to jump to 'an informant'.
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