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clevermanka) wrote2006-08-30 09:42 am
clevermanka) wrote2006-08-30 09:42 am
F-list and inattention
Yesterday I was coming out of the restroom on third floor and the woman following me out asked "Are you Chernobyl Red?" Wow! That was a first. It was ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
affreca, who said she friended me, but doesn't comment. I was flattered at being recognized, and I felt a little bad that I hadn't noticed she friended me. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating (especially with Faire starting and new folks might be friending me): I don't check to see who friends and unfriends me. It's not something I pay attention to. Please don't take it personally if I don't notice you've done one or the other.
The only time I look at my list of LJ friends is when my f-page is getting out of hand and I have to do some trimming. I feel like if you're on my f-list, you should be someone with whom I regularly interact. I should be reading your entries and commenting on a regular basis. There are some people I've friended, we interacted quite a bit, but our common interests diverged or whatever, and I found myself commenting (and reading) less and less. When I'm no longer reading someone's entries, it's time to take that person off my f-list. It's not a comment on how I feel about him or her as a person. Not at all. It's just that some people fall in and out of contact. That's normal. I want to make sure I read and/or comment fairly regularly to all the people on my f-list. That's not how everyone deals with their f-list and that's fine. I'm just saying that's how I work mine.
I do not have internet access at home. All my LJ and email must be done at work, in the time I can squeeze in between job duties. I don't have time to read and respond to 100+ friends. As a matter of fact, I'm looking at the list now (which has managed to creep above 100 again) and I'm wondering if I shouldn't do some trimming.
So please, don't take it personally, ok? I rarely post things friends-only. So it's not like you're getting cut out of something big--not really. What I post here is open for anyone to see. If I felt otherwise, I wouldn't be putting it on the internet.
affreca, who said she friended me, but doesn't comment. I was flattered at being recognized, and I felt a little bad that I hadn't noticed she friended me. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating (especially with Faire starting and new folks might be friending me): I don't check to see who friends and unfriends me. It's not something I pay attention to. Please don't take it personally if I don't notice you've done one or the other. The only time I look at my list of LJ friends is when my f-page is getting out of hand and I have to do some trimming. I feel like if you're on my f-list, you should be someone with whom I regularly interact. I should be reading your entries and commenting on a regular basis. There are some people I've friended, we interacted quite a bit, but our common interests diverged or whatever, and I found myself commenting (and reading) less and less. When I'm no longer reading someone's entries, it's time to take that person off my f-list. It's not a comment on how I feel about him or her as a person. Not at all. It's just that some people fall in and out of contact. That's normal. I want to make sure I read and/or comment fairly regularly to all the people on my f-list. That's not how everyone deals with their f-list and that's fine. I'm just saying that's how I work mine.
I do not have internet access at home. All my LJ and email must be done at work, in the time I can squeeze in between job duties. I don't have time to read and respond to 100+ friends. As a matter of fact, I'm looking at the list now (which has managed to creep above 100 again) and I'm wondering if I shouldn't do some trimming.
So please, don't take it personally, ok? I rarely post things friends-only. So it's not like you're getting cut out of something big--not really. What I post here is open for anyone to see. If I felt otherwise, I wouldn't be putting it on the internet.