Justice in the Blogging World

I have been completely blown away these last two days, by the support and loyalty shown towards me by people who have read my blog, interacted with me on Twitter and Facebook, and who have offered me their assistance via email. The fiasco with copyright issues has brought people together, raised awareness and shown me a very positive side to blogging. After contemplating a blog break, I have realised that I would only be doing this because of my trust in the blogging world having been broken. But after this outstanding show of loyalty, I am honoured to say that the trust is still there, albeit in a vigilant way. You have all shown me that our blogging community and the online community as a whole, is a wonderfully supportive place to be and I for one am grateful to be a part of it. On Saturday evening, I went to bed and hardly slept. I told myself during the night that I was taking my blog too seriously and needed to back off, thus meaning my only hobby may no longer exist. Most of us have at least one hobby we enjoy, and it is something we get great pleasure in pursuing. For me, it's blogging. And if I ever have a break from doing it, it will be because I want to, not because I feel forced to.

What that thief (for that's what she is) has done to me is make me stronger. If she thinks it's okay to steal other people's words and pretend they're her own, then I pity her. As both her blogs have now been deleted, and I am quite sure she has created another profile known simply as "I", then I think we can safely assume she has realised that what she has done is violation, theft and unlawful use of content. I'd like to move on from this experience. I want to get my blog back to being about me, my family, my daughter, my life, and take it away from being about a total stranger whom obviously has no morals, no shame and no remorse. Incredibly, she left a particularly bizarre comment on Yellow Gal's blog stating that she has done nothing wrong, we have all been mean to her and we should be ashamed of ourselves. For what, I have no idea, but as she went to the trouble of changing the odd word in each post, I would say it was obvious she knew what she was doing was wrong. What I find extremely sad is how her readers and followers naturally assumed the posts were written by her, about her, and left sympathetic comments not realising they were being taken for fools. There were 151 posts copied from one blog alone and I'm not sure whether that was mine or not.

Perhaps we'll never know who deleted her blogs, but at least we all know that sticking together and supporting each other is definitely the way to go. If the offender has read the comments on my previous post, then I hope she has learned a very valuable lesson; don't mess with a sheep farmer who has a "Beware of the Dog" sign on her front gate.

THANK YOU, EVERYONE

CJ xx