It’s Not Me

Well it’s been a bit of an odd week on the interwebs for me this week so far. On Monday Cam Riley (see previous post) unexpectedly posted this funny post about me on his G’Day World blog and linked to it on Twitter, where he knew I would see it.

I have absolutely no problem with people I know and like making fun of me like this. After all, I’ve been known to throw the odd joke or three about Cam into online conversations from time to time, heh : )

This is a different matter, however. Bronwen Clune pointed out this new @notjjprojects Twitter profile to me this morning. I’m not sure what to make of it really. Some anonymous person doesn’t like me very much it seems. I’m not sure whether to feel flattered or offended that someone feels I’m worthy of this kind of attention.

I did have to alert people in my Twitter list that the profile has nothing to do with me, as the person seems to be adding people I’m having regular conversations with. For the moment, I’ll choose to be flattered by it.

Here are some of the replies I’ve had about it on twitter today:

@darkgracie: wow even i feel violated. LOL. Wow man what did you do to get that kind of Twitter Account *launghing*.
@xerocomputing: Cool, you’re famous enough to have impersonators – like Elvis :)
@yonderboy: i guess some people have a lot of time on their hands. must be cool having a nemseis though. i want one too!
@wow, you gots a hat’ah/ stalker! Very cool…(well, sort of).

All I can say is not everyone is going to like everyone else, that’s fine. The world doesn’t work like that. I choose to put myself out there in quite a visible way, so this kind of thing is bound to happen. Twittering on…

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  • http://www.servantofchaos.com Gavin Heaton

    A little freaky to be sure. Seems ironic based on your first post of the year. Sometimes the social media freeway doesn’t take you to nice places.

  • http://notjjprojects.com notjjprojects

    The account you refer to has been deleted.
    I would like to apologise to you publicly if it freaked you out. It was done on a whim, and after thinking about it, I realized it wasn’t a very pleasant thing to do. I have deleted the account.

    Please accept my sincerest apology, JJPROJECTS.

  • http://www.jjprojects.com jj

    I appreciate that, if you are the person responsible. The account hasn’t been deleted though.

  • Yas

    Hmm. That must have been weird experience…
    I guess, when you publicly voice your thoughts/opinions out there, you’d get various responses (which I believe it’s one of the fundamental functions of social networking), but that doesn’t necessarily allow us to literally do whatever we want.

  • http://globetrotteri.wordpress.com Carrie

    Hi JJ,

    I’m a new follower of yours on Twitter and just came around to check out your blog. I’m also a relatively new Twitter user. I gotta say, I love Twitter, but this is the second disturbing post I’ve seen in two days. Yesterday, I read about Julia Roy’s stalker on Twitter, and now I’m reading about your run-in. Is this a common occurence on Twitter?

  • http://www.jjprojects.com jj

    @Yas Yeah, I think you’ve got to take the good with the bad. I did decide to put myself out there in this way. I have nearly a thousand followers on Twitter, so there are bound to be a certain number of negative elements. It’s just part of the deal on the web I think.

    @Carrie Thx for following me on Twitter. The vast majority of my experiences on Twitter have been very positive. I’ve met a LOT of great people, both online and off from Twitter. As I said, I follow a lot of people and a lot of people follow me – same with Julia. You do have to be careful on any social network I think, but in general people are very polite and friendly on Twitter. You can block people too, if you need as well.

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