Recently, I came to learn about my school's unofficial 'confession page' on Twitter from one of my classmates. She took 5 screenshots of the posts and shared it with the class chat and they aren't exactly nice posts either. Mean ones, I'd say. And 3 of the posts were written in such a way that implemented that they looked down on the sec 1s. Btw, I'm a sec 1 so ofc I feel offended.
One of them said, "F*** the sec ones" with that -_- emoticon. Another said something about not liking my batch of sec 1s and glad that he was graduating soon. Next one was a comment about a sec 1 girl with stuffed boobs and how obvious it was. There were some other mean ones too, but I wasn't as insulted as of posts about the sec 1s.
Although there is nothing wrong with setting up a confession page, not like anyone could stop you from doing that either, I feel that the posts written should feel mutual. As long as it doesn't cross the line of instigating negative feelings, I think it's perfectly fine. But writing mean comments? No. Just no. Saying horrible things about others, doesn't mean you are definitely better than them. In fact, you are just a slobbering pig that wants attention or thinks you're cool. You're not. Everyone hates that kind of person. (Unless you're those kind of bimbos who follows the bitchy 'queen bee' or the queen bee herself, chances are that you're 75% a perfectly likable person)
I'm not exactly a Twitter person, but from what I gather on the page, you'll have to send confessions to the admin where he/she will post it on the page? Heck, I don't even know the admin's gender. Everything is anoymous. Anyway, the admin probably allowed anything to get posted, not even bothering to filter out the mean ones. What. The. Heck? So it's perfectly fine not to control these comments? WHAT?
Look, doesn't mean you're older, you're more superior. More experience doesn't make you more superior than people who are younger than you. Hey, sometimes younger people actually have more brains than older ones. The older ones who thinks they are 'superior' are probably more foolish than the humble younger ones.
I understand we all have mean thoughts at some points of our lives. You know, like, that girl is so bossy, that guy's such an ass, stuff like that. Come on, you've gotta admit you did think of those thoughts before. It isn't wrong because, are thoughts wrong? They aren't. Are feelings wrong? They aren't either.
But it's the action that determines if a person's in the wrong or not. Writing something hateful is definitely something wrong. You make somebody unhappy, you turn a possible smile into a frown. Have you ever thought, we are all humans? We all have feelings? No matter how light or harsh you meant your comment to be, we all feel it. You may think others may not care and close one eye to it, but c'mon, there's this little part of us that gets sore all the same. Afterall, we are humans, not robots.
But if you really have to urge to vent those mean comments somewhere, the social media is not the place. First off, the internet doesn't just limit only to your use. The internet is everywhere, in this whole world. A Siberian could access to your comment if he had internet. And knowing the internet, a tiny mean comment can blow up to the angry internet users chasing after you. It's not something you'd like to experience.
So if you really have to, talk to your friends although I really won't recommend that. But at least, this 'mean comment' is shared by your friends. Gossip isn't the best thing to do, so just try to avoid it. Write it in a blog if you must, but set it to private so that only you or a group of friends can see it. Not the entire world.
Basically to round it off, mean comments are intolerable. They cause unhappiness and who likes them? Be sensitive to others, not a dumb bitchy sh*t. Because, Karma, you know? Maybe the next day after you blurt a mean comment about somebody's haircut, yours get fed into the printer and tada, a great haircut *sarcasm*. So if you really can't keep yourself from sharing that mean comment, tell your friends, or create a little blog that only you and your friends can see. Best option: simply shut up and keep horrid comments to yourself. The world is a happier place without meanies or haters.
