Jessica
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Michael Xavier:
Why is it that when you don't like an opinion that varies from your own on your FB page instead for responding like an adult you chose to block them from making further comments?
Michael Xavier
Hi Jessica. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get to answering your question. I'm rarely here on goodreads, and they make it quite hard for authors to navigate their own pages. As to your question, I will try to answer it in two parts.
1. My Facebook page is a writers page. It is not a fan page. It is not a discussion page. I have been publishing my work years before the internet, and long before social media gave the false sense of security to anyone with a keyboard that their opinion trumps facts, or experience, or the decency of silence. Meaning: Just because you can comment, don't always mean you should. Especially on a page where the writing is given away. Take the piece to your own page and tear it to shreds. I don't care. I do care when people start little bickering fights over opinions that lead to un-needed wars. Did you know that even through the last presidential election with all its craziness, my page did not have one single mention of either candidate or politics? Not one. Now you know why. I block and delete the people who are there to "state their opinion" rather than read my work. It has become a sort of library of one author.... I don't know how I feel about that analogy, but I don't feel angry.... I do know that.
2. Anyone who is blocked can still enjoy or read my work, they just cant comment. I ask you, why is it so damn important to be able to type something in a comment box? What part of you needs to do that instead of just reading my work? I would like to think that is why you are on my page in the first place. It isn't that I don't want you there. I don't want the drama there.
So enjoy, if you can. If not, I understand. In the end- I've got good new and I've got bad news— I'm Michael Xavier
1. My Facebook page is a writers page. It is not a fan page. It is not a discussion page. I have been publishing my work years before the internet, and long before social media gave the false sense of security to anyone with a keyboard that their opinion trumps facts, or experience, or the decency of silence. Meaning: Just because you can comment, don't always mean you should. Especially on a page where the writing is given away. Take the piece to your own page and tear it to shreds. I don't care. I do care when people start little bickering fights over opinions that lead to un-needed wars. Did you know that even through the last presidential election with all its craziness, my page did not have one single mention of either candidate or politics? Not one. Now you know why. I block and delete the people who are there to "state their opinion" rather than read my work. It has become a sort of library of one author.... I don't know how I feel about that analogy, but I don't feel angry.... I do know that.
2. Anyone who is blocked can still enjoy or read my work, they just cant comment. I ask you, why is it so damn important to be able to type something in a comment box? What part of you needs to do that instead of just reading my work? I would like to think that is why you are on my page in the first place. It isn't that I don't want you there. I don't want the drama there.
So enjoy, if you can. If not, I understand. In the end- I've got good new and I've got bad news— I'm Michael Xavier
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