On friending
Before the LJ redesign, my home page used to show updates from people who weren’t on my friends list, but I had visited their pages recently. I didn’t realize how much I needed this until it went away (is there a way to get to it that I'm missing?). There are so many LJers who I used to view regularly but never friended for some reason. Anyway, as I find them again, I’m friending them, and as I’ve seen some people have friend policies, I guess I’ll share mine. If I friend you, it’s because I want to follow what you’re doing. It doesn’t mean I expect you to friend me back or that I’ll be hurt if you don’t. It just means I don’t want to forget you’re out there and miss whatever excellent things you’re posting. If you’d prefer I didn’t friend you, that’s cool. Just let me know. No hurt feelings, I promise.