I found out a bunch of fandom "friends" hated me once While a lot of not nice things were said by people, one of the things that stung the most was a friend saying that he dreaded talking to me on MSN.

Wow, that really sucks and I'm sorry that happened to you. :(

Finding out that those you considered friends actually don't really like you really does sting, even more so when you find out that they've been secretly ranting about you to others behind your back.

Yeah, I do think the mocking of Twilight did go too far. It was inescapable at the time, everywhere you went people either were hardcore fanatics of it or were openly hating and mocking it, and it kind of got out of control. It was a prime example of the Internet loving to hate on something and missing the point the original criticisms to begin with, because there are valid critiques of those books but it got lost in the middle of the hate and mocking (and the sexism) that occurred during that time.

I'm sad that you didn't get to experience the Firefly fandom at the time, either. I remember being so excited and counting down the days to Serenity alongside other fans on LJ.