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Block Whomever You Want on Social Media

Telling you not to is abuser logic

Kitanya Harrison
4 min readApr 26, 2019
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Social media is tricking people into thinking they have the right to have access to anyone at anytime to say absolutely anything. They don’t. Anyone who runs up into your comments or replies and starts cursing or being abusive off rip and demands that you engage with their disrespect has issues. Don’t invite that into your space. Block or mute them and get on with your life. Ignore the arguments about you being a “coward” who “doesn’t want to debate” them. It’s all projection. They have nothing of value to offer, and they know it. Especially the ones who are the most committed. It’s all smoke and mirrors propping up people with no intrinsic self-worth. Why else would they sea lion into people’s comments looking for negative attention? Really think about how pathetic and sad a person’s life has to be for them to have to resort to that kind of behavior.

The Internet is (mostly) open and allows people to interact freely. It’s a virtual world, but it is still a part of society. People who can’t behave properly on social media can’t behave properly in the real world. Never forget that. Their dysfunctionality always plays itself out in their real lives. If someone approached you in public, accosted you verbally and followed you for blocks screaming at you, you’d do whatever you could to get away for…

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Kitanya Harrison
Kitanya Harrison

Written by Kitanya Harrison

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