Comments on: My Middle Name is Schadenfreude

By: advice columns, — You Should Only Know

advice columns, — You Should Only Know — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:54:03 +0000

[...] I really, really love advice columns. Advice columnist may actually be one of my dream jobs (along with traveling spa reviewer) and I certainly welcome your burning questions. But the only thing I love more than advice columns is miserable people getting what’s coming to them. [...]

By: Carolann

Carolann — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:26:21 +0000

I support and respect your stalking.

By: angelasw

angelasw — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:36:28 +0000

You are not alone. Most people piss me off and I keep coming back, mostly because of a fascination that compels me to find out more about what I disagree with. Hence the BA in religion.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:21:10 +0000

On occasion I’ll find myself reading post after post on some blog I’ve randomly come across, which I’m reading in spite of how horrible of a person/writer they obviously are. I’m typically pretty good about recognizing it and not subscribing to their feed though.

As for Facebook, I personally love how so many people from my high school feature a profile pic of them and their children, wherein they all look completely miserable. Thank you time!

By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:58:35 +0000

I don’t WANT to be that crazy person, but it appears I definitely, definitely am. And I don’ t want to stop. How do people go through life without getting angry at the internet? Aren’t they bored?!

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:58:25 +0000

I definitely do this. There are some people, you read their blog, and you just go, “Seriously? You’re seriously doing this?” For the vast majority of people, mean words are just going to get their hackles up and kind advice is going to go straight over their head, so talking to them isn’t useful. And clearly reading them is just going to raise your blood pressure. I think NOT reading them is the only sane response…unless you want to be that crazy person where people go, “Are you seriously going to keep reading it? Seriously?!”

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:14:57 +0000

No. You aren’t alone. At all! I’m so bad about this, and I’m so glad you’ve brought this up. I’m a huge internet stalker/enjoyer of “bad but not TOO bad” things happening to some people (gosh, that’s hard to admit). And I always want to say something, but then I’m like “What purpose does this really serve?”

Maybe there is an anonymous meeting for our kind…

By: Erica

Erica — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:38:19 +0000

I know! And I put off this post for as long as I could, and then it exploded out of my evil little fingers. I can’t even contain myself to help other people not be neurotics

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:20:51 +0000

Wait, what? Other people are like this too?

All this time I thought it was only me. I am hugely relieved.

We’re probably all going to hell, but we can at least meet at the Starbuck’s there and talk smack about various people.

By: MeredithElaine

MeredithElaine — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:53:21 +0000

Wow, do I feel you on this. There are some blogs that I read that continually piss me off and I feel all stabby about it. And I want to write and comment and say some blog-post-specific version of “WTF ARE YOU THINKING?!?!?!?” I hold back as much as I can. And my blood pressure continues to rise.