Oh, dear, more silly-girl tsk-tsking from the master about my shortcomings.

Sadly, Miss Crabtree (and I emphasize the crabby part), you are not putting a dent in my self-esteem, due to your chronic inaccuracy.

First, I have been on Twitter and FB for a while now and was actually using AOL message board and the WELL when you were still in grammar school.

Second, I responded to both your comments in a previous post and I am not known for being afraid of people with different opinions.

Third, sorry I am too “jovial” for you. What can I say, except: You have no sense of humor. Pig Latin is always funny.

Fourth, please, please stop reading this blog, as it seems to cause you so much pain that you veer into fiction.

As to your bandwagon accusation: Now you have gone too far and are about as wrong as you can be. This column and this site is well-known for breaking original scoops on companies like Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and more.

We do it in typical reporting style and with deep analysis and sourcing, which has been highly accurate and fair, as opposed to hand-fed Web 2.0 non-news dreck that gets regurgitated on a daily basis by too many.

You might actually have known that before your little tantrum here.

Our process, which is done with high ethical standards and journalistic practices, is really just fine, even if we do some sillier posts now and again that you don’t like.

That you “prefer to find the Techcrunch take on the topic of the day because they are so great at explaining what the issue is and then getting right to the crux of the controversy in a way that its clear” is pretty much all I need to know about what you require from your news sources.

Sorry I cannot make you laugh about TOS (btw, I covered TOS issues at both the Washington Post and the WSJ concerning AOL, eBay, Yahoo, etc etc.), so I hope you find what you are looking for somewhere else.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/.....d-request/

He seems to be the guy behind this as well… since he’s the lawyer in charge!

I didn’t want to be a troll at that video thing you produced, so I just went too. I think it’s the best approach (pretend I went on for three pages here telling you how misinformed you were without actually giving a single example (fawning over John Edwards)).

Now, to Kara’s possible misinformation:

Are you sure it’s “wizard”? I would have thought “lizard” might fit better.

I wouldn’t trust those people to park my car. Which I think in a few years might be what they are doing.

This is your follow up post on two other posts that you wrote this week on the topic of Facebook’s TOS and in each case, you have not understood the topic.

Clearly you are in no position to be interpreting this story. I assume you have some expert critical analysis on the market to share, etc. but your writing on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks have proven that you are trying to be an expert and write about topics that you have not yet studied enough. As a result, your writings and comments stick out like a sore thumb and may have a negative effect on many people who are reading to try and understand. I assume you dont actually use Twitter or Facebook? You have never once responded to any of my comments here so I assume you are afraid of all these people with different opinions too.

Anyway, whether you are or not, your writings have been very misinformed.

Instead of the above post, perhaps it would have been more appropriate to write a post about how you advised all of your readers to chill out and just go ahead and give their stuff away to Facebook, and not worry about it, but that maybe you were being a little too jovial, objective and persuasive about that, now that you have had some time to do some reading up on it.

It is for this reason that I am going to stop reading your blog and would advise others to do so as well (unless you are here just for the empty snark).

The other thing I would like to point out is that most of the stories you cover here are bandwagon stories (e.g. you find a topic on the home page of Techmeme, and then jump in with your personal opinion).

While it may seem like a good way to build up an audience (being a techmeme sucker fish), you will need to make a compelling argument for why we should come here to read your articles instead of everyone elses.

I have seen several people comment on some of your stories before, and they do get a lot out of them. Maybe it would be helpful to go back and have a look at your process.

I will always prefer to find the Techcrunch take on the topic of the day because they are so great at explaining what the issue is and then getting right to the crux of the controversy in a way that its clear, but also they are fun too.

Here, it seems like its often just misinformed snark.

So theres some feedback. You may disagree, but hopefully it will at least be helpful to consider that there is someone out there who feels strongly enough about it to take the time to say. Right or wrong, here is an interesting comment my dad always said: you should stick to things you know best, and find others to help with the things you know less. If there is something you want to learn, you gatta dive in and participate.

And here is a translation to my comment above:

Kara doesn’t understand the argument against the Facebook Terms of Service.

Solution: Whenever someone doesn’t understand Kara, but wants to understand the topic that she is talking about, you can probably find a more straightforward approach to the story at http://www.techmeme.com

I dont want to be a troll so I’ll go. Best of luck for helping out the world in a more positive way in the future. Now is a good time to help, no hinder.