Friends Cut

[teaberryblue]

So, guys, I just did a pretty significant cut to my friends' list. I've been trying to use filters to read for the past couple weeks because I didn't want to do this, but that made me feel kind of lousy, like I was deliberately relegating some people's journals to less-important status.

My friends' list had well over 200 people, and I was starting to have such a hard time keeping up that I wasn't reading at all and I was missing important things from some of my closest friends. Rather than do that, I've pared it down to below 200. This meant taking off some people whom I genuinely like, and I want to apologize, but I just couldn't keep going like I was an feel like I was able to use my LJ the way I wanted to be using it.

That said:

--I've kept on all of the newest additions, because I want to get to know you before removing you without getting a chance to become acquainted. That seemed better than removing people I haven't yet gotten to know.

--If I did remove you, you are absolutely welcome to keep reading. My journal has few, if any, locked posts (I don't think I've had one for over a month).

--If I've removed you, or if you've added me and I haven't added you back, I generally don't add people unless I've had some interactions with them elsewhere. If you take the time to comment on my LJ and get to know me, or if you converse with me elsewhere, I am definitely more likely to add you, and I won't hesitate to add back people I've removed.

--There is total defriending amnesty here. If I've kept you on my LJ but you don't want to continue to be LJ friends, please let me know, and I'll be happy to remove you and replace some of the people I've taken off.

<3 everybody!

Comments

[bubonicplague.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to chop the fuck out of mine as well; I don't have as much time to spend online as I once did, sadly. God knows some of the fuckers on my list need to go anyway.

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

Part of my problem is that I really like most of the people on mine and I kept feeling guilty every time I went to cut names.

[bubonicplague.livejournal.com]

The ones I feel bad about are friends who are no longer in my fandom and just don't post anything but fannish stuff. I mean, I love some of them dearly, but I don't care to look at post after post of slashy boyband picspam, thanks. I have no repertoire of commentary reserved for that.

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that actually accounts for a lot of the people I just defriended actually. Most of them are perfectly lovely people, but their journals are mostly fandom stuff, and not about their actual lives.