Date: 6 July 2005 06:54 pm (UTC)
As much as I don't want to agree with you about this, I do. Especially about the livejournal friending policies.

Quite a few people on my friends list are only there because I like their fanfiction or for fandom reasons. However, many of them have been turned into real friends by reading their personal journals, which makes me feel closer to them while it lets me in on their real life.

The other half of my friends list would be people that I have friended (or vice versa) because of similar interests. I may have talked to them on communities before, and we hit it off well... or I may have looked at their LJ interests and found out we had many things in common. Thus, a friending. (I know I'm not making a point, I'm just rambling.)

Now, about this line: However, as our interests diverged, I hardly ever find anything interesting in their entries, but I still care for them as a person.

YES, YES, and YES. A lot of my livejournal friends are from when I was die-hard into X/1999 and various CLAMP series, but as my fandom changed to Fullmetal Alchemist, I lost touch with a few of them. But, I still care about the person no matter what. However, the lack of commenting gets me scared, and I feel like I should take them off my friends list... but I don't want to, because I like the person. It's weird. And confusing.

And... sometimes, I feel like I have to make my posts suitable for an audience, but then again... I never really do that. I always post about my day, and if I'm angry, oh man, you're going to get a nice post about that. However, I feel like I'm flooding my friends list with unnecessary things that they don't care about. Now that right there is just... ugh. It's your journal, so you can write anything in it, but the fact that our idea of journal is now memes, fandom related posts, and getting the most comments really makes me a bit discouraged. :/

...I think I have more to say, but I can't remember what. XD I'll be back later, don't worry.
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