way back in the early days of the internets...
a tech savvy friend of mine had his very own website. Neato!

He kept all his musings and schoolwork there, along with some photos. Very much a precedent to the blog.

He's probably the nicest person in the world. He's a wonderful chap who doesn't have a bad word to say about anybody, except John Howard, but lets face it, thats pretty natural.

So I downloaded a particularly nice picture of him and got to work with some VERY crude photoshoppery. Big red bombs and missiles, knives and blood and an angry red scrawl of "****'s is a cunt" "****'s will die" ,etc, etc, etc. and promptly emailed it from an anonymous address.

The poor bloke was bemused at first, and questioned all his friends, myself included, and I for once managed to keep a straight face in my denial of knowledge.

The email photoshoppery and abuse continued and I watched my poor friend get more and more distressed by it all, but I couldn't stop. The worst part was, I was the one he was turning to for support. I felt so dirty, no one else knew it was me, and everyone was very concerned for him. It scares me that I got addicted to the fun of it.

Then I got drunk and told him. I laughed. So did he, eventually.
(lessmiserable, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 3:04, Reply)