I may live to regret this whole post .
Name changed for this as I'm aware that people will might end up connecting it to me.
I am a blogger, not an anonymous one and happily I haven't been properly trolled yet (touch wood!!). I'm aware that this happens to alot of people with my type of blog and I thought I was ready for it. I had prepared myself for anonymous keyboard warriors, but I don't know how to deal with jibes from people who 'know me'.
My blog is doing really well and I'm trying to use it to pursue a writing job. In the meantime I work two other part time jobs but my dh is still the main earner.
A couple of years ago, dh had a work issue with someone who was my friend. I won't go into detail but it ended badly with hurt on all sides and as friends, we parted ways. I haven't seen them since then.
A few days ago I noticed a tweet on my newsfeed, to a relative of this past friend and curiosity got the better of me. i had a look at their profile.
There was a tweet sent just a few days ago which i believe refers to me and my blog. I'm sure it is as it was posted at a time that my blog was making a few waves in our area and talks about pathetic bloggers. It refers to a 'social media whore' and says 'get a job', it even calls me a hippy 
. in the past this person has directly and publicly referred to me as parasitic and a whore on Facebook.
There have been other comments from this group over the last couple of years, never addressed directly to me but always available for me to see and oftentimes done in a way that ensures I see them i.e. using hashtags that I'm using or loosely referring to my blog name, incidents from the past or posting veiled insults in local groups & organisations that I'm known to be a part of.
I've brushed them off, though they hurt but I think it's the terminology used in this one that has got to me aswell as the fact that this person lives locally to me and is friends with one of my neighbours. It's just so 'close' that I'm finding it hard to ignore, it feels very personal.
After a glass of wine last night i stupidly told my parents and my Dad in particular was upset. The person in question is a teacher and my parents think this makes it ten times worse especially given the problems with trolling and online bullying amongst teens at the moment. They think I should do something about it, but dh and i think it's best ignored, though I fear it will only get worse if the blog continues to get popular.
Really the only thing that i could possibly do is confront these people and I just don't want to. I still miss some of them and if what happened with work hadn't happened then these would be the people cheering me on, but they aren't and they really seem to hate me.
I can tell myself 'til I'm blue in the face that it's their issue not mine but it really bloody hurts. I promise you, I don't deserve to be spoken about with such hate and it makes me worried to go on blogging and risk the insults getting worse or more direct.
I know this is AIBU but I'm not quite sure that I'm asking that or that I'm asking anything really. My blog isn't anonymous so I don't want to write about it and 'feed the trolls' and I don't want to tell any other family members/close friends as I've seen that it has hurt dh and my parents...but I suppose I just need to talk about it and I'd like to know what other people think.
I know I could just be asking for trouble posting on AIBU, (I'm a fully fledged Mnetter (naice ham, pomme bears, leave the bastard) 
but where else?
Without telling the full story, you might think I'm just be being paranoid' but believe me I am not. It's not a case of 'is about me'; I know it is and it's been going on for two years!!! This just happens to feel like the straw that broke the camel's back.
So AIBU to be crying whilst writing this, letting myself feel like a bullying victim, letting it get to me? AIBU to ask you what, if anything, I should do about it?