View all Portland events on Eventful ]]> http://www.heatherfinley.net/2009/09/29/do-this/feed/ 0 http://www.heatherfinley.net/2009/06/30/novelist-alice-hoffman-going-crazy-on-twitter/ http://www.heatherfinley.net/2009/06/30/novelist-alice-hoffman-going-crazy-on-twitter/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:48:30 +0000 heatherfinley http://www.heatherfinley.net/?p=95 Here’s a link to one of the stories I saw about how Hoffman kind of went crazy on her twitter because she got a bad review…

http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/06/29/novelist-hoffman-apologizes-for-blasting-a-book-reviewer-on-twitter/

What does everyone think about this?

Personally I think it is completely out of line what she said. You are in a career that your work is going to be reviewed. If you were working a desk job or something and your boss gave you a poor review would you put an email out to everyone in the company calling your boss an idiot? I really don’t think so.

I think in general she should not have commented at all about the bad review but if she really felt the need to she should have done it in a way that did not make her sound like a child spitting off insults at recess. She used very poor judgement.

I know some people are just saying she made a mistake not realizing how much the internet would blow things up but I don’t agree with that. No matter who you are, you can stop and think for a minute before you write anything online. We all know by now how public the internet really is.

The story made me think of this video I watched earlier today…

I LOVE the Green brothers.