I Am A Blogger Superstar

I have often joked that you know when you have hit blogger superstardom, when you receive hatemail and a possible stalker. We here at PMB are so excited to announce that we have finally acheived this!!! WOHOOO!!! Break out the balloons and cookies!

Ok so I got this email and honestly, I laughed. Then I wondered, should I just hit the delete button? Should I post about it? What? Then there was something said in the email that made me think, yea…..I am totally going to post it here. So without further ado here is the email (scroll down to where I nitpick it if you want to skip the email):

I tried to call you while you were at ingles, but you had already left. I saw you on four square and just thought I would give you a shout. Dont forget to wipe!
Oh, BTW, it is really stupid to put your mastercard on your phone. Tell your father-in-law that the best way to make online purchases is to buy a pre-paid credit card, load it using cash and then use it to make online purchases. NEVER EVER save credit card data on ANYTHING! (read your blog

I love four square. It gives me the energy to get up an fuck with people. stupid people who love to tell the whole fucking world where they are and what they are doing. Then they blame hackers. But it was their own stupidity and they go on un-aware of their own ignorance until yet again another “hacker” causes mischief in their petty little lives. These people should learn how to think. And another thing…….

OH, My…. was I blogging out loud again? I meant for that to go to my blog site. Sorry for the confusion!

Now, let’s discuss….shall we?
I tried to call you while you were at ingles, but you had already left. I saw you on four square and just thought I would give you a shout. Dont forget to wipe! Hmmmm. Ok so yea I checked in on foursquare saying I had visited Ingles. Of COURSE I already left. I don’t check in when I am physically there.  I am constantly amused by people who assume that you must be at the store to check in. Hell, I have been known to come home after work and check in to 4 different places I had visited that day. The only exception to my rule is drive thrus and if I am at a local event. Besides, there is a much easier and 100% more obvious way to know where I will be. If this person had paid any attention they could have figured out it wasn’t foursquare! Lastly, I have no idea what the “Don’t forget to wipe” statement is supposed to imply. I am going with the idea it’s for a shock factor. Who knows?

Oh, BTW, it is really stupid to put your mastercard on your phone. Tell your father-in-law that the best way to make online purchases is to buy a pre-paid credit card, load it using cash and then use it to make online purchases. NEVER EVER save credit card data on ANYTHING! (read your blog first let’s clarify that I was NOT discussing my father in law. He uses the internet for email. Nothing more. I was discussing my husband and having gone back and re-read the post I can see where the individual made the connection. I am taking that as a blogger lesson and will work to make sure that my posts are clearer. Secondly, this is what we call “preaching to the choir”. I thought it was pretty clear that I was unhappy about the idiot things my husband has done. So by the time I got here I was laughing even harder than when I started out and thinking, “no shit sherlock”.

I love four square. It gives me the energy to get up an fuck with people. stupid people who love to tell the whole fucking world where they are and what they are doing. Then they blame hackers. I wasn’t quite sure how to break this up so I decided not to. I love foursquare myself. I find alot of new local places to hang out at thanks to my local tweeters. I often meet up with them thanks to foursquare. And yes, I do love telling people what I do. That’s why this is being posted. This is life, real life, and I don’t hide from it. I share the good, bad, and ugly. You can either like it or not. You can read it or not. But, Mr. Stalker, it is very hypocritical to show such nasty hate for me sharing with the world what I do and yet say you love foursquare. And really, if that is what gets you up in the morning, I feel sorry for you. Maybe if you spent time going out and enjoying life you could be much happier? And don’t try to say that you ARE happy, people don’t use such strong language when they are truly happy with themselves. Now that last part, about the hackers. I would really love for someone to explain HOW blogging, tweeting, and checking in on foursquare after a store visit causes a hacker to put a virus on my work computer. Yea cause my tech friends and just about anyone with a basic computer understanding knows that it cannot happen that way. A virus is placed VIA email or infected website. Since I check all my email on my phone I can’t get it any othr way BUT by an infected website. For that matter, the website I suspect infected my work computer is (1) the only website I visit at work for the purpose of having some enjoyable music to listen to while I crunch numbers and (2) I visited daily. It also has been reported numerous times on their forums about the SAME virus I had for the last few weeks.

The rest of the email isn’t important enough to really tear apart. It shows a sad sad little person. I am guessing that they are either a young teenager or a shut in. I also suspect that I am probably not the only person they try to torment. Problem is, I have had some stalkers in my time. This person is nowhere CLOSE to being as terrifying. This person is really new at trying to be an annoyance. This person is also scared of me. Why email me? Why not comment right on the blog? It’s always been my policy to never block any comment unless it’s spam. If they are so big and bad then certainly they could respond in a public forum! Lastly, I know who this is. A good stalker makes it difficult to know. And this individual tried, they even had foresight to create a new email account just to send me an email. That really shows how much they love me! The email is hilarious, wholywhore@yahoo.com. Who names themselves wholy whore? And wholy isn’t even a word, did they mean wholly, holey, or holy?  But anywho, yea I know who this is. I apparently bruised their ego. Poor thing. If you can’t have a thick skin when involved in social media, it’s best to not even be involved.

So there it is folks…..I am famous now! One of my awesome lovely pagan sisters has already dubbed me “twitter ho”. I guess we can add foursquare ho and blogger ho to it too! WOHOOO!