I have a group of friends and one person within those group of friends ended up owing me $ 500 I gave it to him as a loan when he was going through hard times. He promised he would pay me back but everytime I ask for the money when he told me he would pay me back he always had some excuse. Then he try to weasel his way out of it by gaslighting me. He offered to pay me back when he knew I was out of town and when I came back from out of town I asked to meet up and he said he didn’t have the money that I should have got it when he had it. Well obviously I couldn’t have because I was out of town so he just pretty much made it clear he wasn’t going to pay me back. At this point I told people that he owed me money and he wasn’t going to pay me back. So I guess our group of friends seems to think that there is nothing wrong with that and they all turned against me and said I should have never put his business out there like that and that it was very rude of me because it should have just stayed between us? At the same time I thought I was doing the right thing by morning my friends not to loan this guy money because he’s a thief? I don’t understand did I do something wrong? By making people aware that he borrows money and doesn’t intend to pay people back? Isn’t that why they have credit reports?