Soapbox: Social Aggression and other Negative Remarks about LJ
Perhaps I'm trying too hard to write some porny stuff, which isn't a natural thing for me - but all I can think about at the minute are aspects of the social ecology of LJ I really dislike - most of which apply to my thoughts on society in general. And these aren't the usual qualms about Friending/Defriending or the mob-potential of meme-ry
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And it's an ad nauseum rant since it's really not possible to get over the things that irritate me about LJ. :-/
//BNF//
Big Name Fan - I feel like that's a cheap and easy label, actually, so I shouldn't use it.
//"friends" with people we've never met//
I've certainly made a lot of friends, as well as having my share of bad experiences. The bad experiences seem sort of thematic to me, though. I just wish I could put the issues in weightier terms, sort of like Nostalgia's excellent "is writing porn for the Internet bourgeois?"
//happened in your case//
Oh, no big thing (at least not on LJ) - just a lot of little things that have become a burr under the saddle.
//some of us aren't quite as crazy//
Yay! And I really don't mean to paint the entire human race or even the LJ community with the Big Brush o'Tar. I just get to the point where I'm astounded by the mean-spiritedness of it all. :-(
//And get back to writing that porn! :D//
Tee hee! Ok...
*goes back to being bourgeois hypocrite porn writer*
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Ahhhh! I see!
Yay! And I really don't mean to paint the entire human race or even the LJ community with the Big Brush o'Tar. I just get to the point where I'm astounded by the mean-spiritedness of it all. :-(
I understand that. No doubt about it.
*goes back to being bourgeois hypocrite porn writer*
*awaits anxiously*
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Still tweaking. Gosh I suck. I want other people who are better at writing than me to be writing the fic!
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