A Glass Half Full

No More Mrs Doubtfire

6/11/2012

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I'm a hip old granny, who can hip hop, bee bop, dance 'till ya drop, and yo-yo make a wicked cup of cocoa"

I have been posting on Twitter for a while now and was probably better recognised with my parody account as Mrs Doubtfire than my present profile name "Looking4U2." Strangely enough when I set up my profile name as Mrs Doubtfire it never occurred to me for a moment that folk would think of it as a parody account, stupid as that may seem. It was my first venture onto Twitter and  I  was green as far as posting, account etiquette and parody accounts were concerned. I chose the name simply because I loved the movie Mrs. Doubtfire and the character portrayed by Robin Williams. She was funny, endearing, ridiculous at times, Scottish, and most of all she loved her children to bits like I and most people do.

More of a concern at the time was the reason why I had joined Twitter in the first place and that was to try and defend the family of a missing child from the hatred and lies being by spread about them by a group of heartless trolls. On reflection that was a rather naive idea of mind because as we all know the best thing to do with trolls is to ignore them, and if that fails, block them.  During my time fighting with the trolls I probably alienated people who could have helped me now in my awareness raising for the missing.  Hard lesson learned.  Can't really blame them to be honest as I used to spam a bit to try and shut up these nuts up which again was inconsiderate and stupid of me.

People have asked why I gave up the name Mrs. Doubtfire as they loved the character too, even sometimes talking to me as if I  actually was that lovely endearing old lady, which I found quite funny.
One day long after I had stopped fighting with the trolls, someone expressed the thought that  I would never be taken serious when using a "parody account".  That was the enlightened moment that I realised that if I wanted to be taken serious as regards awareness raising for the missing then dear old Mrs Doubtfire had to get the heave and I resurrected another username of mine.

Dear old Mrs Doubtfire, she served me so well for a while.


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5 Comments
Autumn Daze
7/11/2012 04:03:51 am

Really enjoyed reading this. Keep on Blogging!

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Looking4U2
11/11/2012 07:33:06 pm

Thank you very much, appreciated x

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Bren link
10/11/2012 12:47:48 am

Glad to see you blogging xx I like Mrs Doubtfire too xx

If people can't put their differences aside to help any person to help find the missing, then there heart is not on finding a missing child or adult.

If those people who you think you have alienated don't help then they don't care for the missing... it is as simple as that. So don't ever beat yourself up over it... People who are will help.

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Looking4U2
11/11/2012 07:32:11 pm

Thanks Bren appreciate your comment. I'll never be much of a writer but it's another medium to get the news out about the missing and have a blether about a few more personal things.

I do get downhearted at times when I think of the time I spend trying to highlight the problem of the missing, especially when those who could help don't, but what can you do? You either give up or get on with it. I hope I can go on with it for a while longer.

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Bren link
11/11/2012 11:01:52 pm

Don't ever get downhearted because for every person that puts their ego before helping a missing person there are ten people who do help and who do retweet. And it is one of those retweets that could lead to a family being reunited and another missing person being found and not just another statistic...


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