When people get emotional and publish defamatory attacks on the internet, they probably think “I’m gonna show him!” They rarely think about what other people are going to read — between the lines — into their diatribe.
We are all interconnected. Attacking others can easily stain your own reputation. image: sahaja meditation
What you say about others online, and how you say it, is more a snapshot of your own character than it is about the person your speaking about.
Quick story: I know two guys who run advertising agencies. One of them won a contract with a big-name brand. The other one had bid on the contract, was dismissed in the early stages, and he became full of sour grapes.
A few months later, the losing owner wrote a public piece with a scathing criticism of how his competitor’s agency was handling the Big Company’s ad campaign.
Did it make the agency he was attacking look bad? Not one bit. Did it make him, the critic, look like a petty & poor loser? Did it raise a huge red flag about his own character, professionalism and truth worthiness? Yup. Big time.
Before reading his nasty review, I had a positive impression of the critic. The moment I read it, I became immediately and permanently mistrustful of the him. He showed himself as a hostile, insecure and unprofessional.
The digital threads of interconnectedness permanently and visibly tie us all together. We all live in fragile glass houses. Throw stones at a neighbor and you may well crack your own – for everyone to see.
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