Very steep flist cut
I removed a full half of my LJ friends list last night (and unjoined more than half the communities to which I belong), which represented some much needed maintenance. I looked at it closely, and found that:
(1) There were people I hadn't talked to in years;
(2) There were people whose main LJ interest is fandom, which isn't something I do anymore;
(3) There were people whose screennames I didn't recognize, where I literally had no idea how or why those people got onto my flist (which could be because they did name changes at some point after we stopped talking);
(4) There were people who appear to have left LJ/stopped updating their journal 1-3 years ago; and
(5) There were abandoned journals of friends who have moved on to new usernames.
Obviously, nothing personal was intended re: those removed, and since they were uniformly people who hadn't commented on my journal in years (and vice versa), I can't imagine that anyone would have particularly strong feelings about it.
I'm hoping that at my flist's current size (under 50 people), I'll actually be able to follow people's journals on a regular basis. I'd like to go back to reading my flist for the first time in ~ 3 years (rather than occasionally clicking over to a very few people's journals.) But I'm not sure whether it'll happen. After more than seven years on LJ, it's possible that this online journaling gig has run its course; I suppose time will tell.
(1) There were people I hadn't talked to in years;
(2) There were people whose main LJ interest is fandom, which isn't something I do anymore;
(3) There were people whose screennames I didn't recognize, where I literally had no idea how or why those people got onto my flist (which could be because they did name changes at some point after we stopped talking);
(4) There were people who appear to have left LJ/stopped updating their journal 1-3 years ago; and
(5) There were abandoned journals of friends who have moved on to new usernames.
Obviously, nothing personal was intended re: those removed, and since they were uniformly people who hadn't commented on my journal in years (and vice versa), I can't imagine that anyone would have particularly strong feelings about it.
I'm hoping that at my flist's current size (under 50 people), I'll actually be able to follow people's journals on a regular basis. I'd like to go back to reading my flist for the first time in ~ 3 years (rather than occasionally clicking over to a very few people's journals.) But I'm not sure whether it'll happen. After more than seven years on LJ, it's possible that this online journaling gig has run its course; I suppose time will tell.