(Potential) Friends Cut
Dear LiveJournal friend,
When LiveJournal notifies me that your birthday is coming up, and I don't know you personally and I can't remember seeing any posts by you recently, and you never comment, and I am not all that attached to you through your storytelling or comments or friendship in the past, I am likely to cut you from my friends list. This doesn't mean I'm angry with you, it just means I don't like having people on my friends list who aren't acting like friends, even within the weird context of social media "friending." If in the future you discover you have been cut, feel free to write to me or comment here and ask to be refriended. But honestly, if you're not going to write here and you're not even reading my stuff, why bother?
On the other hand, there are a few people I've friended who never friended me back, who I keep on my list anyway because I'm interested in what they have to say. Most of those people are famous or infamous. It's arbitrary.
Fear not -- I don't cut people with whom I actually interact on LiveJournal or elsewhere, and I don't cut people for merely disagreeing with me.
Signed,
Anais
When LiveJournal notifies me that your birthday is coming up, and I don't know you personally and I can't remember seeing any posts by you recently, and you never comment, and I am not all that attached to you through your storytelling or comments or friendship in the past, I am likely to cut you from my friends list. This doesn't mean I'm angry with you, it just means I don't like having people on my friends list who aren't acting like friends, even within the weird context of social media "friending." If in the future you discover you have been cut, feel free to write to me or comment here and ask to be refriended. But honestly, if you're not going to write here and you're not even reading my stuff, why bother?
On the other hand, there are a few people I've friended who never friended me back, who I keep on my list anyway because I'm interested in what they have to say. Most of those people are famous or infamous. It's arbitrary.
Fear not -- I don't cut people with whom I actually interact on LiveJournal or elsewhere, and I don't cut people for merely disagreeing with me.
Signed,
Anais