Friends list, First Sweep

[silversolitaire]

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I've purged my friends list some. It's something I've meant to do for a long time. I'm not done yet either. This is the first sweep. I'm going to do a second and third later on. I've thought about this very carefully, looked at every journal, the userinfo and when they've commented on something I wrote last time. For now I've removed people I haven't really interacted with for a long time. I've also removed multiple accounts, fiction accounts, abandoned accounts etc. of people I still read, so don't worry about that. If you have been removed and absolutely hate it, please let me know and I'll most likely add you back. But given the fact that we haven't talked for a while I doubt you'll even notice. The point of this purge was that I simply need to cut down on my friends list. It's too big, too full of strangers, basically.

If you've been removed, rest assured, I didn't do it because I think you're boring or hate you or want you out of my life. It's simply because I want a clean slate, where I can give my LJ friends the attention they deserve. Lately I've been filtering a lot, up to a point where I barely read any entries anymore except those of my closest friends. That's not the idea of LJ. So, I had to cut. I hope you understand.

All in all this has been very healthy for me. I've taken the time to look through every single LJ of the 100+ people on my list, get to know them again, notice them as an individual. I think people do this a lot less lately.

Of course, I realize this is a bit of an unfavorable time for the sweep since I've been posting almost exclusively friends only lately. I'll see what develops. If a lot of people express their dislike of being cut or keep me on their list I will think about doing public posts more often. I've been thinking about that "weekly update" thing for a while. So, if you want to keep me on your list anyway, please do. I'm always tempted to ask you not to remove me, but of course that'd be selfish. It's not like you need to remove me now because I'm such a mean bitch. I'm not... I just want to keep this a bit more private.

Take care.

EDIT: I'm not purging as some form of punishment for not reading or commenting, okay? Just so you know. It's very nice to hear you're still reading, but it's not like I'm going to kick everyone who doesn't read my LJ religiously. I'm really just trying to manage my LJ a bit better.

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Comments

[queststar.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of cutting my friends list as well... I realized that I've been skipping a bunch of entries as of late and that's not my intention :/ But I always find it very hard to decide whether to remove a person or not.

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's really difficult... There are so many people that I appreciate and want to keep, even though I might not have the chance to read them all the time. I mean, with filters it's all become a lot easier to manage. But I just wanted my LJ to look less like a place full of strangers. I'll probably never manage to keep it really small and simple. But at least I'll be able to keep everyone in my default view.