It didn’t need to be said.

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I have come to you today with a small rant about something that happened to me the other day.

Now I don’t have many viewers on my blog. Majority are from you lovely fellow WordPress-ers, (Yeah, I see you guys!) and I appreciate everyone single on if you that had followed, liked, commented, and read my rambling!

The other day, I get on the app (I use my phone or iPad most of the time) to find that a single person who’d been following for a while, had gone through and liked a bunch of my posts! I was stoked!! How kind of them to take time to look at my previous stuff, whether they really read it or not, I still felt overjoyed!

Then I read their comment on my (then) latest post…

They said that they were unsupporting me, (unfollowing is probably what they meant? I had to translate from Spanish) they didn’t care for my content.

I replied, saying I was sorry that something I wrote made them not want to follow my blog, but thanked them for visiting.

They replied back and in short said you can’t be everyone’s cup of tea. Which is very true, and that’s not my rant for today. In fact I don’t mind at all that they unfollowed me. What bothers me is this…

Why does someone feel the need to tell you that they don’t like your content??

I honestly would not have even noticed, and I would have been none the wiser. But instead, they made a point to comment on my post, to tell me they didn’t like my stuff and they were leaving. (Again, I do Not mind that they didn’t like my content!!)

But why tell the person?!

I’ve heard it happen to people on Instagram before, if you don’t like something, keep scrolling, don’t say anything, continue on with your day, there’s no need to make someone aware that you don’t like them.

Ok, rant over, I’m off my soap box for now. I hope you have a wonderful day!

~A

9 thoughts on “It didn’t need to be said.”

  1. First up, I’m sorry to learn about your bad experience. But here’s the thing — I just read the post you were talking about, and I do have something to share. (This will be a rather long comment, so apologies in advance for the wall of text.)

    That user who showed up on your blog and left that nasty comment is one to talk big about “reciprocity” when he can’t even understand the language you use in the first place. Incidentally, he showed up on my blog and started liking some of my posts — but I immediately kicked him out. Thing is: That user writes in Spanish, is based in Spain, and runs an “education blog” in the Spanish language.

    On a side note, I’ve been seeing this trend of bloggers from mainland Spain who don’t speak a word of English, yet latch on to Anglophone blogs. I doubt that it’s for establishing links; I don’t write in Spanish, much less speak it. So far, I’ve called out three. I find it perplexing; why follow a blog in a language you don’t understand?

    (However, it’s not just limited to Spain; there are other non-English blogs that do this. I’ve seen some from France, Germany, Italy, Brazil and other countries in Central and South America.)

    Yes, it’s true that they don’t care about your content at all — and it’s because they only want to grow their view and follower counts.

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  2. 🤔 Hmm. I think that the whole idea of a person unfollowing you because of what you have posted on your blog is outright childish.

    What happened to the freedom to express yourself?

    If I do not like what a fellow blogger posted on their blog, I will not unfollow them; I will simply not press the “Like” button or comment.

    Anyway, followers come and go and there is very little that we can do about that.

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    1. My thoughts exactly! I’m mainly bothered because I’ve seen it happen to others as well. It is childish, to make someone feel bad or shame them for expressing themselves. If someone doesn’t like it, they should quietly move along! 😄

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  3. I have also wondered about this kind of negative interaction, could it be some sort of passive aggressive power play thing perhaps, though what is the goal, since you are doing it to a virtual stranger. Or perhaps it IS all about the stats, building up follows and likes and then every so often pruning, and letting YOU know they are pruning.

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    1. Right?! I have no idea! It’s very strange behavior in my mind, because I personally wouldn’t want to hurt someone’s feelings like that, even if I didn’t know them. Of course I’m this instance, my feelings were not hurt, in fact it made me laugh a bit, but I know that others would possibly feel different, as if they had done something wrong.

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      2. Gosh, ain’t that the truth! The internet was NOT made for sensitive people, but words hold no weight if you don’t have emotion behind them.
        Thankfully I’m veeeeery good at dismissing negativity, I worked in customer service for 11 years…😳

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