I got a friend request today.
It was from someone who used to be a friend on Facebook whom I had un-friended after she attacked someone on my timeline. The person she attacked took it very personally, unfriended me, and hasn’t been back to worship since - it's been a few months. That’s right. A Facebook friend I have never met in person attacked a person I actually know, a member of my church, and caused emotional pain to that person.
So, yesterday I got a message from the former friend. “I miss you,” she said. I replied, “I miss you, too, but I cant have people attacking other people on my timeline.” And I told her about the person she had attacked, and what the reaction to her attack had been.
Her response. “Interesting.” She wanted to know why I didn’t say anything to her at the time, and quite frankly, I was just too angry to trust myself to be loving.
But as far as the person she’d hurt? Nothing. No apology. No expressed concern. Just, “Interesting.”
And then she sent a friend request.
Declined.
