Two former classmates started a “comment attack” on a Facebook friend that began when another former classmate, Maureen Smith Avery, posted a remark about “baby daddies.”
The two commenters, Alice Brown and Tammy Fields, were former classmates of Mrs. Avery (then Smith) when they all attended Elkwood High in Bloomington, Illinois. “I don’t really remember them,” Mrs. Avery admits. “But obviously we knew each other because we have so many mutual friends. I didn’t want to ignore their friend request.”
She agreed to share the content of the controversial post with reporters. “I posted something about watching Maury and how boring I was because I only had one baby daddy, and he’s my husband. They took it as a judgment against them, but I’m pretty sure I added an LOL. In fact, I’m positive I did.”
Maury Povich: The cause of all problems.
Below is a sample of comments, exactly as they appeared on Facebook:
Alice Brown: wtf dos that men
Tammy Fields: thx alot stuk up bich
Alice Brown: i gess ur betr thn me
The staggering amount of spelling errors and the inexplicable absence of vowels leads one to suppose these two graduated at the bottom of their class, but Mrs. Avery assures us that that’s how most Facebook people spell. “No one cares about spelling, “ she explains, a bit condescendingly. “Everyone knows what they mean.”
It wasn’t hard to find information on these two women, as they report their every move to all of their Facebook friends. When we interviewed a Mutual Friend of these two, she agreed that they both appeared dumb and slutty. “All they ever do on Facebook is whine about their kids and not having any money from their baby daddies. It really gets old. I’m like, well why’d you have so many kids with so many guys then? Get a job, you know?”
But when we asked this so-called Mutual Friend why she didn’t just “Unfriend” the two women, she quickly backtracked. “What if they notice I’m not on their Friends list anymore? I mean, we went to high school together. I haven’t seen them in twenty years, but we’re still connected, you know? We have like 47 mutual friends.”
Despite the verbal abuse they poured onto Mrs. Avery, neither Ms. Brown nor Ms. Fields have Unfriended her. When interviewed via email, Ms. Brown writes, “Wtevs.” Ms. Fields elaborates a bit more with her response, “Im jst livn my lif.” Incredibly, Mrs. Avery also has not Unfriended Ms. Brown and Ms. Fields. “I just blocked them from seeing my wall or pictures, and places I check in. But I didn’t want to Unfriend them. That would be so rude!”
