You know, people kept telling me I shouldn't do it. Don't use credit cards they said. If I had any self respecting morals left in the world, I would avoid plastic and use only cash and checks. After all, when I was young my parents almost never used credit cards - it was checks and cash only.
Why, Oh why, did I have to use credit cards? I mean - sure - all the other 'hip' kids were doing it. They were using their credit cards all over the place. Disrespecting themselves and just opening themselves up for this kind of thing to happen.
So when I came home from the debates this weekend and found this letter from bank of America:
I should have known better. The fact is, if I hadn't been sending my credit card all over the internet, the fact that someone got hacked would have impacted me at all. I'd be safe and secure.
Now, Bank of America promised me fraud protection, and it looks like they will put some money back into my account, but come on - you know and I know it wasn't BoA's fault or the vendor I used fault.
Nope, it was all my fault. I used plastic online, and I guess I should feel totally ashamed.
None of this would have happened if I wasn't a terrible, plastic using person.
Remember this the next time people snicker over someone getting hacked for ANY private information, and ask how you'd react if it was your financials that got hacked.
No matter what gets stolen, pictures, data, finances, private messages.. the fact is, the person who is hacked is almost never the one to blame.
7:01 PM PT: Update for Clarity Sake
There wasn't much in this very small account. If it was hacked to bits, it wouldn't change my world. That wasn't the point. The point of the diary is that over the last week - and again tonight on the news nets, they are debating why the women who were involved in the selfie-picture scandal 'took the pictures' in the first place, blaming them for the fact they were hacked.
The fact that most of the commentary on a bank hack reflects on the bank or other issues, or discusses finances really highlights the problem this diary was aimed at - that in instances like this you don't see people blaming the card holder. They blame everything else. But a scandal where people have their private texts and photos stolen, which may or may not have a sexual nature, too many in society turned to blaming the women for having that content to begin with. Whereas no one ever blames another person for having a credit card of any sort.