The internet is a wonderful tool and an excellent medium through which to communicate. Web sites, blog sites and the like open doors for world-wide expression. But with open doors comes also the potential for people to freely come in and out as well. And they do. That’s the risk of utilizing a venue like this. People can come in, express affirmation or dissent, and then walk away. Often they do so under the protection of anonymity.
That there are those who scour the internet, looking to dig up dirt on others, is difficult to deny. I have had to deal with them and so have many others. Once again, that is the risk that’s taken in utilizing a venue like this.
In the past, I have been relatively sporadic in my usage of my own site, for this very reason. Why bother when all you draw are hecklers hiding in anonymity? Now others with whom I am very close are experiencing the same. It’s embarrassing on a number of different levels.
But I refuse to let a commiserable minority exercise that kind of authority over me. Base tactics are for base people. That’s the kind of thing the Pharisees sought to do to Jesus. It’s what happened to the infant church. So we shouldn’t be surprised when similar treatment is received by those striving to be His disciples.
