foundlingmother:

PSA to everyone on Tumblr: Comments on posts are public, and other blogs may respond to your comments. If you want to have private conversations with your friends, use the messaging feature on Tumblr. The internet isn’t like the real world where we all have an understanding that you don’t insert yourself into conversations. On the internet, everyone’s having those “private” conversations with loudspeakers and printed transcripts passed out to every passerby. They’re never really private, never really exclusive, unless you use the features that are specifically designed to keep your conversations one-on-one. I’ll never write anything in posts, reblogs, tags, or comments that I’m uncomfortable with someone responding to and/or debating me on, because the internet doesn’t follow the same rules as the real world. It just doesn’t. And if someone’s response really bothers you, block them.

This has suddenly become very topical.