Accepting criticism on social websites

The thing about posting comments on Facebook--or any social network--is that one person will think you're a genius, one person will think you're an idiot, and 98 people will ignore you totally by not responding.

You can't trust either extremist, especially if one is your mother, and one is your enemy. So you're dependent on the criticism of the other 98, but if they don't respond at all, then they're no help either.

Basically, a creative person has to be his own critic, and can't rely on the criticism of others especially if their judgment is merely yes or no without any explanation.

Also, sheer numbers mean nothing. If everybody likes what you write, then it's probably superficial. If nobody likes what you write, then it's either touching a taboo subject, that is, touching a defense mechanism, or it really is bad. Probably the ideal is that half the people love it and half the people hate it.