doing some maintenance

[winterbadger]

I've been through and trimmed back my list of non-reciprocal LJ Friends. I've also added back my entire remaining list to my default view, in interests of determining in the future which LJs to keep reading and which to drop. LJ seems a tiny bit like dating in that, if you run across someone new, you take a little time to find out if the two of you are compatible, interesting to each other, and make life more interesting by sharing it. And, like dating, if after a while that doesn't work out, one or both of you will probably choose to move on.

I was struck today reading a couple of journal entries (personal ones, not community or "author's public blog" ones) that this was someone I couldn't remember ever hearing from, and when I went to look I saw that they had never added me back. Which is, of course, totally their option but *if* they clearly aren't interested in sharing with me and *if* I don't really find what they're posting all that interesting, why are they still only blogroll? So now they're not.

I did also drop the two remaining author blogs because, well, while it's cool they have LJs, they're not either of them authors I'm all THAT interested in.

Comments

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing not so long ago. No one noticed! LOL!

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Makes sense.

For me, as I'm not around LJ much, I want to be able to pay attention to the people I do like (even if I don't comment or post very often I am usually reading). Someone I've met all of once who didn't friend me on FB when I tried to friend them, meh, I can live without....