Hatmail LOLZ

So, I tagged a pretty reputable new media artist's webpage on my del.icio.us with the following: "dross imposters hatefull shamefull NOT-very-good". And, of course, no one has yet to think of del.icio.us as some sort of social networking utility (yet), so i figured (wrongly) that no one cares what i tag and how i tag it. Right?



WRONG! I got HATEMAIL! (Passive-aggressive hatemail at that, but I don't blame her, really...)







Dear Marisa Olson,




I'm very sorry. And not sorry in a Gawker-style, half-assed, making-fun-of-you kind of sorry. I am genuinely sorry. It didn't occur to me that you would check up on who's bookmarking and tagging your work, which is dumb of me.



I don't even think your stuff is bad (although I think your Facebook project displays a poor understanding of what a "gift economy" actually is, and was the kind of project that you pursued simply because the title was just too clever to go to waste...) In reality, I think you're pretty awesome, and as someone with nothing of major note under my belt, let me say you shouldn't care what I think.



To hell with Web 2.0, to hell with the social networks. Please accept this lolcat as an apology:







Sincerely,

Harlo Holmes