On unfriending [30 Nov 2003|09:51am] [ mood | pensive ] It had to happen sometime, right? I mean, this is LiveJournal. Someone finally posted the big, "I have too many friends, I have to thin out my friends list" post, I checked and... I'm gone! Poof! It's kind of a weird situation. I feel as though this person holds me responsible for us drifting away. But this is the same person who left the mailing list I was using to announce stuff we're doing, and who pretty much ignores my replies in their journal... So it's just weird. This should probably be a private post, but I don't feel like making it one. This kind of makes me think of, of all things, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. There was an episode where two characters decide to have this Bajoran ritual where, basically, two people decide to stop being friends and become strangers again. Sometimes I wonder if something like that wouldn't actually be a pretty valuable thing... to at least give some closure to things. At least that had a sense of mutual agreement, though. LJ unfriending feels like someone saying, I no longer have any interest in what's going on in your life. I'm not taking the other person off my list, yet. I actually care about what's going on in that person's life. They'll just be spared my tales of game days and adjunct teaching. Um... yeah, so they're not missing too much :) So, life goes on. This is obviously on my mind or I wouldn't post about it, but I'll deal. Oh, wait! I should go see if... gasp!... I'm also off this person's Friendster list! *grin* So, til next time.... post comment

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