On livejournal and how I use it...

I'm pondering tonight, as I often do. Tonight, in a slightly navel gazing kind of way, I am pondering livejournal.

I am pondering what I use it for. I am pondering why I add people to my friends list, how I filter it as I do, and what my friends list means to me.

This was brought on, as these rambles always are with me, by a couple of people de-friending me. One offered a general purpose explanation that he was just cutting people off his flist that he didn't really talk to anymore, either on LJ or in real life. The other didn't say anything, but she's not someone I know very well, honestly, although she is the fiancee of someone I am quite fond of, and I'm vaguely hoping that this isn't a sign of me watching him drift out of my life entirely as well.

(I was, by the way, quite mellow for me. I had no particular sulk or pout about either of these 'de-friendings' which I am sure many of you will be surprised to hear)

Anyway. And it got me thinking.

( It got me thinking about why I automatically de-friended both people immediately, without even really considering the matter )

( I also wondered why it was that I largely don't do friends list culls )

( But having said all that, why are there people out there who have friended me that I've not friended back yet? )

( And finally, why is this 'friending' thing a big deal anyway? )

Hmmmm...odd thoughts. Silly thoughts.

In other news, I'm off to see 300 tonight. Some mean people have said it may not be historically accurate. I, however, care not for historical accuracy tonight. I care for a film about the myth that I suspect Leonides would have preferred. Then this weekend is Zeitgeist Mummy/Sabbat/Mage/Mortals chaos. I'll sleep when it's all done.

On livejournal and how I use it...

I'm pondering tonight, as I often do. Tonight, in a slightly navel gazing kind of way, I am pondering livejournal.

I am pondering what I use it for. I am pondering why I add people to my friends list, how I filter it as I do, and what my friends list means to me.

This was brought on, as these rambles always are with me, by a couple of people de-friending me. One offered a general purpose explanation that he was just cutting people off his flist that he didn't really talk to anymore, either on LJ or in real life. The other didn't say anything, but she's not someone I know very well, honestly, although she is the fiancee of someone I am quite fond of, and I'm vaguely hoping that this isn't a sign of me watching him drift out of my life entirely as well.

(I was, by the way, quite mellow for me. I had no particular sulk or pout about either of these 'de-friendings' which I am sure many of you will be surprised to hear)

Anyway. And it got me thinking.

( It got me thinking about why I automatically de-friended both people immediately, without even really considering the matter )

( I also wondered why it was that I largely don't do friends list culls )

( But having said all that, why are there people out there who have friended me that I've not friended back yet? )

( And finally, why is this 'friending' thing a big deal anyway? )

Hmmmm...odd thoughts. Silly thoughts.

In other news, I'm off to see 300 tonight. Some mean people have said it may not be historically accurate. I, however, care not for historical accuracy tonight. I care for a film about the myth that I suspect Leonides would have preferred. Then this weekend is Zeitgeist Mummy/Sabbat/Mage/Mortals chaos. I'll sleep when it's all done.