Yay!

[valis2]

I added a few "characterkus" (haikus told from a specific character's point of view) to quirkyhpshorts and the squid poem I had originally put on privatemaladict's journal. Two people have joined! I'm excited about the community.

I am just now finished catching up on the flist. I read everyone's LJ one at a time, and it was really interesting to read several entries like that in a row from the same person. You get a much better feel for their overall tone. It was unusual to see everyone's layouts, as well, because normally I read the flist entries through my friends page. Anyway, I'm done with the people, now it's time to start in on the communities.

I am considering a de-friending. I've never done one before, but this mass reading experience has shown me that there are a few people on the list with whom I have little or nothing in common, and there are people who have never commented on my journal and I've never commented on theirs. I'm going to take a long look at the list. I'll be gone a lot this year, and I can't always spend thirteen hours catching up on the flist. :(

I should be working on the new chapter but all I want to do is write more squid poems.

Comments

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been thinking about de-friending, too. My f-list has really grown over the past couple of months, and it's getting to be very hard to keep up with it. And there are a few people with whom I hardly ever communicate. Of course, there are also a few who never post at all! There are several like that on my f-list. They friended me, so I friended them back, and since then, they have never commented on any of my entries, and what's more, they never posted any of their own! Do they read my LJ? Are they waiting for me to reveal secrets about myself so they can blackmail or stalk me? Who knows...

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I wonder the same thing!

Then there are the LJs where I comment, but never get replied to, and that's disheartening, unless it's an artist's LJ, where a hundred people are shouting "great pic!"

I'm not as worried about de-friending the non-commenters as I am about a handful of people who are really nice but I just don't seem to have anything in common with anymore. I really do like them, but I can only keep track of so many lives, y'know? :)

After reading iibnf's story about de-friending someone who never commented in her journal and then receiving long weepy e-mails from them and seeing it bemoaned in the other's journal for days I'm a little freaked out, though.