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daylight_broke,
Under the cut is a list of 15 reasons that people have told me for why they have removed other people from their mutual friends list. What are your reasons for defriending people on Livejournal?
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1. Not responding to comments on their personal journals.
2. "The person has never commented on any of my posts."
3. Boring posts. The definition of a "boring" post will vary depending on whom you ask.
4. Excessive posting per day. What's your definition of excessive posting? More than 5+ posts per day?
5. Born with a negative personality: too depressing, too hostile, too critical, too judgmental.
6. Twitter updates.
7. All comments are screened from all friends for all posts.
8. Journals are no longer updated after years of inactivity.
9. TL;DR posts about mundane real-life activities (for example, writing a long post about clipping their toenails).
10. Format (lack of paragraph breaks), mechanics (lack of capital letters at the beginning of sentences), punctuation (lack of periods at the end of sentences).
11. Whining for more comments all the time despite the fact all their posts are TL;DR or boring.
12. NSFW posts.
13. Passive-aggressive posts. Example: "A person on my mutual f-list wrote a post or a comment I did not like. So I'm going to write this passive-aggressive post venting about that person. I won't reveal the person's name, but I know this person will be reading this post!"
14. Refusing to do LJ-cuts for long entries that break the scrollbar.
15. Growing apart and developing different interests.
daylight_broke, Under the cut is a list of 15 reasons that people have told me for why they have removed other people from their mutual friends list. What are your reasons for defriending people on Livejournal?
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1. Not responding to comments on their personal journals.
2. "The person has never commented on any of my posts."
3. Boring posts. The definition of a "boring" post will vary depending on whom you ask.
4. Excessive posting per day. What's your definition of excessive posting? More than 5+ posts per day?
5. Born with a negative personality: too depressing, too hostile, too critical, too judgmental.
6. Twitter updates.
7. All comments are screened from all friends for all posts.
8. Journals are no longer updated after years of inactivity.
9. TL;DR posts about mundane real-life activities (for example, writing a long post about clipping their toenails).
10. Format (lack of paragraph breaks), mechanics (lack of capital letters at the beginning of sentences), punctuation (lack of periods at the end of sentences).
11. Whining for more comments all the time despite the fact all their posts are TL;DR or boring.
12. NSFW posts.
13. Passive-aggressive posts. Example: "A person on my mutual f-list wrote a post or a comment I did not like. So I'm going to write this passive-aggressive post venting about that person. I won't reveal the person's name, but I know this person will be reading this post!"
14. Refusing to do LJ-cuts for long entries that break the scrollbar.
15. Growing apart and developing different interests.
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Date: 2011-03-20 08:56 pm (UTC)I think I'm with you, someone I know in RL who is my LJ friend gets a free pass on a lot of things that would get an online acquaintance a quick trip to the door.
Real friends can be negative, boring, have bad grammar, etc. and it's OK because they're my friends. :)