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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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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on 2004-07-12 03:44 am (UTC)Ahem! ;-)
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on 2004-07-12 03:51 am (UTC)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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