Picos Gemeos

I know what you mean, I have been getting more and more bored with the whole thing for a while now. I think it is more because I am fed up with being in contact with so many stupid, boring and thoroughly unpleasant people - it really feels like I am being dragged down quite a lot of the time. :/

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It's similar to me in a certain way. I'm tired of clicking me friends page and seeing the same redundant, badly-written, not-funny posts everyday. I want to tell people to fuck off and I find myself feeling bad and wrong for thinking such negative thoughts. In the end, I'm just bored with scrolling through so much slush.

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*nods*

I read through my friends list and constantly find myself wincing at the same old boring crap - some people really do need to take a crash course in basic written english as well! Argh! Then again all the worst offenders are off my default view and I only read their journals if I am seriously bored!

I keep thinking about having a break from this but I like keeping a diary as it is a continuation of the paper ones that I have kept from adolescence and would miss writing my thoughts down. Hm.

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I would be upset if you left... your journal is a highlight for me! Seriously, please don't leave me with the great unwashed!

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How can I resist such a heartfelt plea? Having had a look at your friends list though I can really feel your pain and imagine what you must be going through... ;)

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now now, don't start a flamewar in my journal!

:)

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I don't know what you are talking about.

Scared you though, didn't I? :P

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nah, not really!

I'm looking forward to friday! What time will you be there? Will I be meeting you guys at the line up?

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Friday is going to be so cool! I will email you and the others later today so we can try and arrange meeting up! :)

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Great. Too bad we can drink...

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I've been bored of it for some time (no real scandal anymore!) but I have nothing better to do all day except work ;-)

I mean, it's nice when it's used to stay in touch or be friendly, but frankly I am fed up of the often all take and no give round these parts. Close friends excepted!!

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Same here. I like reading your posts, and Melanies and all of your friends that we have in common... but I can help feeling a malaise towards the whole Livejournal in general.

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Yep, exactly. There's a lot of people who I've often been friendly or supportive towards, and they've never posted in my livejournal, not even to just comment. Or they make unreasonable demands of people on their friends list; "Post here to remain on my friends list" or [paraphrased] "*Everyone* should give me advice on this or you're not real friends" or "Nobody loves me any more because they're not posting *hugs* now, but I'm too stupid to accept people's advice with sorting this problem out and it's been going on for 3 years" etc etc. Can't be arsed with the emotional blackmailing. Some people don't realise that livejournal is meant to be a community first, rather than a "look at me" soapbox. A friends list is just one of millions of people's friends list; livejournal is not an audience exclusively for one self-obsessed person!

Ahem! ;-)

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I've cut those type of people out of my journal a while ago! I also hate that shit and decided I was being used by those people and didn't like it. In general, I like everyone on my list - and it is my fault that I wish they would write better, or lead more exciting lives. I guess their boredom only reflects mine.

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LJ can be more interesting if you regularly socialise with the people on your friends list as you see your name mentioned more(!) and an event writeup takes on more significance as you were actually there. So that's a hint to come out and see us all more often ;p

I won't defriend people who behave overly attention-seeking, but I will mark them as such in my mind and just not bother with them anymore.

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I'm trying to come out of my shell... it's difficult because I lead such a quiet life with Kevin and I'm not used to going out that much anymore. It's easy for me to make up excuses and stay at home. But, having said that, I feel that I had fun that time at Suzi's so I'm looking forward to our next rendez-vous.

:)

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It is always easier to stay at home, especially if home is nice and warm and requires no effort. But I usually find that once I'm out and actually at $venue, I'm glad I came. It just takes the initial leap to get it together I think :-)

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That's how I think too... must work on courage more.

:)

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Heh, yes, it kind of gets you through the average tedious working day - if only because everyone else is just as fed up as you are!

I have always used mine as a personal diary rather than a public announcement service and like it for that aspect as well as because it facilitates staying in contact with people but on the other hand I am really fed up with some of the other users and find the continual stream of memes and quizzes and those ugly text box things really wearying.

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I've been trying to use mine as a creative outlet, and also for humour. But it's the whole giving and taking - feeling that you have to read some abominable entries because people are reading yours - that is getting to me.

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*nods*

I know what you mean. I have taken quite a few people who are friends off my default view because they annoy me online which makes me feel really guilty as I imagine they would be quite hurt if I told them that...

I have luckily managed to get rid of all the truly abominable people though by a process of stealth and cunning - things have improved a lot since I don't have to wade through bigoted, pseudo depressive, whiney, self righteous crap on a daily basis! Next I will be starting on the people who post memes and quizzes all the time...

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