There's a number of people I thought I liked till they got LJs, for the very reasons you list.
I've always had a low threshold for Drama Queens, IRL and on the net. There is no Drama in my life. I have worked long & hard for it to be that way. Dragging it into my periphery is not welcome. I'm on an even shorter fuse these days, as I work with two 40-somethings who seriously behave like they are 12, all day, every day, so anything that reeks of the playground sets me off. Coincidentally, the only people I ever say bad things about in my journal are my co-workers, because I have nowhere else to vent (Jason's heard it enough).
My "friends" list consists of a few people that I have not only never met IRL, but I have no idea who they are. I've come across them reading friends of friends' stuff (which on its own apparently makes me into the biggest arsehole in the world according to a certain subset of LJ users) who write well about interesting things. I treat it as "people who have interesting things to say"
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Date: 2006-10-16 08:20 pm (UTC)I've always had a low threshold for Drama Queens, IRL and on the net. There is no Drama in my life. I have worked long & hard for it to be that way. Dragging it into my periphery is not welcome. I'm on an even shorter fuse these days, as I work with two 40-somethings who seriously behave like they are 12, all day, every day, so anything that reeks of the playground sets me off. Coincidentally, the only people I ever say bad things about in my journal are my co-workers, because I have nowhere else to vent (Jason's heard it enough).
My "friends" list consists of a few people that I have not only never met IRL, but I have no idea who they are. I've come across them reading friends of friends' stuff (which on its own apparently makes me into the biggest arsehole in the world according to a certain subset of LJ users) who write well about interesting things. I treat it as "people who have interesting things to say"