friends cut

[mijeli]

It's time for the Unpopular 'friends cut' Post. I hate the term. I'm not cutting people; I'm cutting online pseuds I no longer connect with people. I hope that much is obvious!
My flist has grown to a crazy number of 154(!) mutual friends, and as I go through the names, I'm realising I haven't interacted with certain people in forever - if ever. Much as I appreciate the sentiment of someone with similar interests putting me on their radar, I don't see the point anymore. And please be ensured that even if I defriended you, I still value your opinion and the exchange with you, e.g. in comms. Sometimes interaction in neutral environments is all we want, no?

But my journal is my notepad, and I want to feel I know every single person who might (theoretically) be reading my entries. So I'm cutting people I no longer feel close to or I feel aren't interested anyway. [Or who simply haven't given a sign of life for years..] Please don't be offended! This is, of course, also the moment for you to defriend me if you've had enough of me.

If you feel I cut you and shouldn't have, tell me now ;) But I believe that friending business is mostly a mutual sentiment anyway.

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And THANK YOU tsuvi, asya_ana and hollys_tree for the v-gifts! ♥ I almost feel like I went to 'trick or treat' this year ...

Comments

[mijeli.livejournal.com]

Well, I just want to be respectful :3 Though I realise that a great number of the people I cut won't even care or notice. If you think the people you are going to cut won't, then why make a post?

Anyway, YOU are the nice one! I'm surprised! ;)

[subtlefire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's my thinking. It's mostly people that I just don't talk to, or if I do they don't respond. That's really not what I'm here for. There are a couple of people I'm wanting to defriend because I don't want to read their posts anymore, but I'm also afraid I'll hurt their feelings. I don't know what to do about that.