Advice from one who knows

Some controversy erupted on the Todd list about a girl's blog. She said some really nasty stuff-that the fans were creepy and there was PCP on the bus and that she didn't understand why people would try to get close to performers and be vampires or some nasty stuff like that. This was most disturbing when one realized that she was the merch girl for the opening band. You know one of the people who rides around in the van, gets a per diem, whose well being is dependent upon the musicians. The list then jumped to action got on her case pointed out the logical fallacy of her position on bands and fans. Things got a little wild-some people were unnecessarily childish and rude, some were thoughtful with their statements, some people even emailed the band in question and their management. Will saw what was brewing (the list is very well read) and contacted the band personally. The merch girl was told to immediately remove the post and was fired from her role as seller of merchandise.
It's kind of like the internets is a web of interconnected threads. (heh.heh.)
Course, I've experienced blog drama. But I didn't lose a job in the process of my stupid ramblings and I never accused anyone of illegal drug use. Except maybe myself but it's not accusatory if you know it to be true. Mostly, what got me in trouble was that at the time I was miserable, hungry, working a job I despised that made me wonder if it was even worth living and nursing a mental imbalance and excessive drinking. That's a really good time in one's life to do something really effin stupid. And I did and I remedied it by disappearing without explanation. And in doing so I presume I more or less wiped out myself and with any luck I'll re-emerge with few people knowing why I went anywhere. Poor stupid girl, she's paying a lot worse than I did. Losing a job-getting attacted by the list wow, if I have any advice to give her---a bit late I suppose---don't use names. If you do use names-use only first names and if you're talking about someone with a particularly unusual name (say Englebert) then use initials.
You will note-I have never said my name in this blog or the names of any of my family or co-workers. In fact I believe the only names I've mentioned are those of the people referred to earlier in this entry.