Last year we went to a park with our friends for the Symphony's fourth of july celebration with a concert and fireworks. We made a lot of food and played games and it was a lot of fun. One couple that was there, the girl is best friends with one of my best friends, but I had just met them for the first time. Let's call her Amy and her boyfriend James. Names changed to protect the innocent
He was a bit of a know-it-all jackass that day, trying to pass off stuff that he heard (rumors) about Apple as fact, and FI and I just kind of rolled our eyes at each other then, no point in saying anything about it, just smile and nod, especially since we just met these people. I used to work at Apple and I know a lot about them still.
So, now we're all facebook friends and some facebook drama came up 2 weeks ago. I posted a status about complaining about a service that Apple was changing that I had JUST paid for again and also upgraded my storage (if you haven't noticed, I'm pretty techie) and one of my friends posted asking if he could get a refund and I responded pretty quickly saying yes, and then continued to complain about how it was changing and would drastically not only change the way I do things personally, but also how I operate my business.
So Mr. Know-it-all, aka James gets on my status and decides to respond to my friend saying that "information regarding refunds has yet to be released" making me look like a jackass that just made all that up, and then continued to tell me WHY I was wrong and that I was overreacting.
Now, if I'm wrong, I'm cool with being wrong, and I'm also really good at being proven wrong and admitting it when I'm wrong. But I am NOT okay with someone playing the role of "Know-it-all" and not knowing what they're talking about. Especially when the way he worded what he said was rude and he was trying to correct me and make it look like I had no idea what I was talking about. (eta: at this point I had about 8 other people who had posted on this status, so not only was he being a know it all, but 8 other people were getting notifications about what he was saying... so it was pretty embarrassing)
So I deleted the status, posted on my friend's wall with the link on Apple's website explaining how to get a refund (a.k.a. there was information released, and if he'd done a quick google search he would have known that) and then I took it to a private message. I told James that I didn't appreciate him posting on my status trying to prove me wrong, especially when if he had done a little research we would have seen that that was not the case. I told him that doing that makes HIM look like the asshole, not me.
He then responded and called me a bitch and it was done.
Well, now we're getting our group together to go to the 4th of July thing again and him and his girlfriend aren't coming. I told my friend (who is best friends with his girlfriend) about the fight and she said not to worry about it too much, but I do feel awful that she invited me, and because of me now her best friend isn't going.
Maybe I overreacted when I messaged him... I probably did... but FI even has my back on this one and he's very non-confrontational. He also thinks that if they don't come because of a little Facebook drama that it's a really stupid reason. I sent James a message today apologizing and telling him that I think that we should put it behind us for the sake of our friends. They're getting married soon and Amy and I are two of her best friends, so we're going to be around each other.
Anyway, sorry about the super long-winded post. It's just been bothering me a lot today and I wanted to get it out and see if anyone had any thoughts. All I know is I'm done with the facebook drama.