Something I find difficult to deal with is when I come across someone talking about me or my work on the internet. It has all the awkwardness of eavesdropping, but often without any intentionality on my part, the internet being what it is
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Criticism, well we all know responding usually ends badly. Mostly I just get emo and avoid lj for a few days and obsess over the comments, reread them to death and then move on. Usually after being criticised I'll stop posting for awhile, and if I'm feeling really emo I'll start deleting old posts in my journal and reorganising tags. It's the librarian in me. I deal with upsets by organising stuff.
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Ah, I wondered why I was feeling a bit lost in this conversation, and perhaps this sentence nails it, by alluding to a difference between LJ and regular old blogging. On other blogging platforms, linking to someone's post typically automatically generates a trackback, so you expect that the subject is listening. (And lots of us cruise our referer logs, too.) This doesn't happen on LJ, so perhaps the culture has evolved a little differently as a result.
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Looking forward to our panels together :)
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I hope you are feeling betterer soon.
I'll send you thoughts of *non-gluten chockie bickies and cake* to go with mynxii's *cups of tea and cuddles*. :-)
Cheers,
Michelle
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