So, it appears I pissed some people off...
Which was NOT my intention.
I did a clear out of my friends list because there are a couple of friends (yes, friends) with whom I share very differing opinions.
I fully acknowledge that these friends are certainly entitled to share said opinions in their very own journals. That is, after all, one of the points of having one. So, for me, it seemed easier to just remove the friend from my friends list in order that I didn't feel offended by the views and/or writing style of someone I care about.
It now appears that Livejournal sends little "notes" to the removed friends to alert them to the fact that they have, in effect, been dismissed.
This shocked me. Now, before you jump down my throat, I don't follow LJ news or drama or boycotts. I don't care. So, if this change was announced, I wasn't aware.
I did the friend clear-out and thought "OK, at least that's done. I do make everyone-appropriate entries so the people in question will still be involved with me and my life but this way their entries won't appear in my friends page and when I want to catch up with them I can just ask them or check their LJ page specifically like I do with a few other friends."
No such luck. A couple of hours later I had three emails that said "soandso has removed you from their friends list on Livejournal".
I'm slightly appalled because I pretty much figure that at least one of them received the same message when I removed them.
How dismissive, how insulting! Why do we need to be alerted to the fact that we've been removed? In my opinion, ignorance would be bliss in something like this. Call me "old fashioned" but I think that the decision to remove a friend from someone's list should remain the person's business and not be shared. There -are- ways of finding out who your friends are on certain pages of Livejournal, but to me, that little email note is a little slap in the face. Had I known that such a note would be sent, I wouldn't have removed the friend in question!
I care about this friend. They haven't done anything -to- me to make them no longer my friend. It just so happens that I don't agree with a large part of what they say. That's -my- issue. But suddenly, without warning, (I presume) they've received an email to say that I basically -un-friended them.
How rude!
Anyway, I think it's bullshit, but that's just my opinion, for whatever it's worth.
I did a clear out of my friends list because there are a couple of friends (yes, friends) with whom I share very differing opinions.
I fully acknowledge that these friends are certainly entitled to share said opinions in their very own journals. That is, after all, one of the points of having one. So, for me, it seemed easier to just remove the friend from my friends list in order that I didn't feel offended by the views and/or writing style of someone I care about.
It now appears that Livejournal sends little "notes" to the removed friends to alert them to the fact that they have, in effect, been dismissed.
This shocked me. Now, before you jump down my throat, I don't follow LJ news or drama or boycotts. I don't care. So, if this change was announced, I wasn't aware.
I did the friend clear-out and thought "OK, at least that's done. I do make everyone-appropriate entries so the people in question will still be involved with me and my life but this way their entries won't appear in my friends page and when I want to catch up with them I can just ask them or check their LJ page specifically like I do with a few other friends."
No such luck. A couple of hours later I had three emails that said "soandso has removed you from their friends list on Livejournal".
I'm slightly appalled because I pretty much figure that at least one of them received the same message when I removed them.
How dismissive, how insulting! Why do we need to be alerted to the fact that we've been removed? In my opinion, ignorance would be bliss in something like this. Call me "old fashioned" but I think that the decision to remove a friend from someone's list should remain the person's business and not be shared. There -are- ways of finding out who your friends are on certain pages of Livejournal, but to me, that little email note is a little slap in the face. Had I known that such a note would be sent, I wouldn't have removed the friend in question!
I care about this friend. They haven't done anything -to- me to make them no longer my friend. It just so happens that I don't agree with a large part of what they say. That's -my- issue. But suddenly, without warning, (I presume) they've received an email to say that I basically -un-friended them.
How rude!
Anyway, I think it's bullshit, but that's just my opinion, for whatever it's worth.