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Input: On mobile sorry for the format or mistakes. Kinda long so TL;DR at bottom. Here goes.


So my brother used to be really good friends with this guy (let's call him jason).  So one day out of the blue my brother tells me that he needs me to do something very important for him and that is to block jason on everything and not to speak to him.  I agree and block him on everything (this was about a year or 2 ago)

Fast forward to today and I get a call from jason and multiple texts asking me for help on something IT related.  Now I currently go to college for IT (working on a bachelor's) and I went to a vocational school for IT, so i know a good chunck of stuff about servers and OS's and any other IT related problems.

I decide to text him and he is wanting to know what type of books and videos he should look into if he wanted to get to know more about servers.  He said he was looking into getting his MTA or MCSA certification for windows server 2016.  As it turns out I just finished a semester on server 2016 so i knew exaclty where to start and told him what books he should get and gave him a couple video suggestions to watch and even sent him a link for an entire online class he can take for $10 to learn more about server 2016.  After I give Jason the information that was it.  I didn't text him after that or anything else.

The next day I'm texting my brother and I tell him Jason messaged me yesterday wanting to learn more about servers so I gave him some book titles and video information for him to look at.  After I tell him this he gets all mad and tells me "you know my stance on it but you're gonna do what you want to do."  The fight continued on with "you're my brother you should uphold it if i ask you to not talk to someone."  I then told him that all I did was give him book titles to look into and that was it, I didnt casually talk to him or anything, I just gave him book titles, video suggestions and a class he can take.  Jason's not dumb with technology, he used to be smarter than me back then but he's only ever learned the hardware side of IT.  He never learned anything about the networking side or server sides of IT.

While me and my older brother continue arguing over text I tell him that all he wanted was some info on where to start.  When i first started IT, I found it damn near impossible to find a place to start when it came to learning an IT subject and no one was willing to help me or even give me a place to start.  (The IT teacher of my vocational school was a complete joke and my IT colleagues from my job were condescending and assholes if I even asked for help from them)  It wasn't until I went to college and found my AMAZING IT teacher that helped guide me into finding the right places to start when I wanted to learn a certain subject in IT.  Anyway we keep arguing and I keep telling him that all i did was give him book titles and ect. as to where to start and he starts saying things like "I would never help stanley (MY Ex-bestfriend) out for the rest of my life because of what you asked of me."

 (Stanley is not his name and that is also a whole other story in itself)

We continue arguing when I tell my brother that I know what its like to want to start something new in IT but have no idea where to begin. I also told him that I promised myself a very long time ago that I wasn't gonna become one of those typical condescending IT guys that tells you to screw off or make fun of you when you have an IT related question, no matter how stupid the question might be.  I told him even if we were fighting and haven't talked in years because of a fight that if you ever had an IT question that I would help you with it, even if we hated each other.

After I told him this he then says "I don't need justification from you, IT has always been more important than our brothership so you do what you want." 

Now IT is NOT more important than mine and my brothers relationship so idk where he got that from and also, he has never even told me why him and Jason stopped being friends.  One day he asked me to block him and I did without question but Jason still had my phone number.  I at least told my brother the reasons I wanted him to block stanley and they were good reasons that I gave him.  My brother has never told me any reasons why he and Jason stopped being friends or why I should block him, and when i did bring it up in the argument today, he said that he's "not arguing about this anymore" and he hasn't replied since.  Brother told me one day to block him and I blocked him on everything, no questions asked. But Jason still had my phone number and thats how he was able to get ahold of me.

So am I the asshole for giving my brothers ex-bestfriend some information on where to start in an IT subject?

TL;DR: Brother gets mad at me because his Ex-bestfriend contacted me to get information on where he should start when it came to learning server 2016.  Tell brother about conversation we had which starts a fight and he has not talked to me since.

helping my brothers ex-bestfriend