Been invited to a scrap but not going..why?

February 27, 2008

I have been invited to meet with a group of local women in my area to meet up at JoAnn Fabrics for a scrap together and I am not going? Why? Simple!

With all the behavior online and rumors that are flying, I just don’t feel comfortable going with supplies at hand, and take the chance in someone needing a paper, or ribbon or something for their layout, and be accused of being a pirate!

I have to tell you, it says on my invitation, about purchasing scrapbook supplies at a discount and mix and matching with each other. What I don’t get is, why is it ok for me to do this at the store for the scrap, but heaven forbid you are scrapping with a friend online who is in need of a certain color paper or frame or something and if you share that with them your a pirate and perhaps you will be taken down for file sharing? Why is it not OK with digital scrapping? I just do not understand this at all.

So I think it’s best I do not go, because then, I would be guilty by association if the other ladies there share and I don’t! That is how it is online! Plain and simple!

I have come to a conclusion that I am an outsider in this so called “scrap community”. Its NOT, I repeat NOT a community at all. There are private chat forums at a popular forum and what they do behind scenes is terrible and horrible. If that is what it means to be part of a community I won’t no part of it. Its why I left that forum in the first place, but I got an email telling me my privacy information may have been compromised because of someone had administrative access and has been caught breaching confidentiality and was caught in the act of piracy. She had access to my personal information and email.

So it can be confusing for a scrapper who has been a paper scrapper for years to head into the digital side because its a whole new set of rules and would I recommend it? To get together with laptops at hand to meet to digital scrap together because someone might see a pretty paper they love to use for their baby layout, because its NOTHING like paper scrapping where a person can be kind and generous in sharing. NOT at all!

So I think it’s best, as much as I would love to go, for me to stay home and will continue to be a HERMET SCRAPPER. Scrapping alone. Folks let me tell you something, it sure gets pretty lonely!!

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