In case anyone ever wonders…
Livejournal calls the page of other users’ journals that you read your “Friends” page. To me, that’s something of a misnomer. I regard that as my “Journals of Interest” page. This is a place for people’s journals I find interesting, relevant, or those of close friends. If anyone has ever added me and wondered why I didn’t reciprocate, or wondered why I stopped watching their journal, I want to assure you that it isn’t because I don’t like you or don’t want to be your friend or even that I’m a stuck-up bastard. It merely means that I just don’t find your journal particularly relevant at the moment or within my interests. This may change at a later date – I do actually review the journals of everyone who has me as a friend on a frequent basis. One thing I can assure you is that it is never due to any personal grudge. I can’t think of anyone on Livejournal whose journal I wouldn’t read because I have something against them personally.
Hope that clarifies matters.
I’m interesting and relevant? Cool!
Ok, I will try harder then…
I must be intresting too…who would have thought that an 18 year old bitching about High School would be intresting.
You really shouldn’t have to explain this everytime you drop someone off your friends list, I’ve seen you do it SEVERAL times before. Every time I see it I think to myself, who cares what his reasons are it’s his journal let him do as he likes with it.
My “Friends” page would be more properly named as “People I’m Spying On”
I don’t even think I know half of the people on my list, but I’m curious.
Curiosity killed the cat. Thankfully, I play a hedgehog on-line.
For a while I thought I was the only person who was slightly uncomfortable with the label “Friends” and “Friends of.” As you do, I put people in the list because I want to read the journals regularly. Some folks I only know from their journals, and would never presume to call them “friends.”
Then there are some that I’ve never met in person, but feel a great deal of affection for, anyway.
*shrug*
<AOL>Meeee toooo!</AOL>
I’ve also never cared for that label. I have people on my friends list who I just have an interest in reading their LJs, but I do not know them well enough to call them a “friend”.
I also find it interesting when people obsess over their “friend of” lists, and freak out when someone removes them.
*Hands you some Nutella* and {grins}