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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Facebook analytics showed Larson was clicking on and reading every post. A mutual acquaintance told Dorland that Larson had read a story about kidney donation and that he’s assumed it was about or inspired by Dorland. The entire time, Larson said nothing, and lied for years to Dorland.[/quote]

I'm in agreement with people on this thread that what Larson did was super sketchy and gross and that she is trying to cover it up now by claiming "Art" and trying to say Dorland has white savior complex (which we hav evidence that she does).

But we take a moment to acknowledge that yet again, Facebook is a major part of the problem. It's actually not great that Dorland was able to see that Larson was viewing posts in the group, because that led her to wonder why she was reading them and not commenting. Which led Dorland to reach out to Larson to basically say "Hey, how come you aren't commenting on my Facebook posts?" Which, yes, seems totally insane on its face. But now that I know that she was motivated by the fact that she could see Larson was reading the posts, it doesn't sound as crazy to me. She still shouldn't have reached out to ask about it, and she should have recognized that it would come off as weird. But I've been in that situation before with Facebook -- noticing that a friend always likes all our mutual friend's posts but never likes mine. I would never call someone out on it, but it's one of those things where you think "It would be super great to not have to see or notice this, so that I wouldn't have to suspect that this person maybe doesn't like me very much." It sucks to have that thought planted in your mind.

And Facebook/Instagram have so many features like this. It's actively bad for interpersonal relationships. It would be a lot easier if we were all more in the dark about how other people feel about us. I sure as hell do not want to know.[/quote]

I’m not even on Facebook and largely agree with you. In this instance, however, Dorland not being able to avoid some minimal knowledge of what Larson was doing was a strange kind of godsend. Maybe Dawn will never get it- I’ll bet she won’t. But she has knowledge that these aren’t friends, and aren’t her readers or editors. They really are not that successful, with two exceptions, neither of whom is named “Sonya Larson,” who is maybe a minor almost-talent. Maybe with time and therapy, Dawn will understand that she was mistreated and dissed by people who don’t matter at all. No Chunky Monkey has developed and sold a viral Times story. [/quote]

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