I’m going to have to filter my friends list or stop reading it. I’m tired of removing friends just because I happen to find them tiresome on occasion. Perhaps It is time to move to an actual blog rather then LJ? I do like keeping my friends updated, and I do like keeping a journal, but I really can’t be bothered to have to respond to yet another bout of the TMIs of web acquaintances. I’m tired of writing out posts or replies only to delete them because really, who cares about what I think. After 20 years of discussion in online fora of differing types, I’m tired of re-inventing the wheel, tired of explaining myself to yet another crop of the shallow and ignorant. Yes, I’m an arrogant elitist. No, I don’t care if I offend you. Perhaps being more acerbic is the way to self-prune my friends list? Who knows, but LJ is being more annoying (as is the entire social world of the internet) as of late. Besides, my non-internet life and friends (that do overlap somewhat with LJ) have much more value than the blips and bleeps of yet another I hate my life post or a my god I’m offended at blah blah post. I love my life and wish to share it with others like positively minded. I seem to find them more here in Portland, OR.
In other news,
I have been taking pictures! I didn’t take any of the bare bar but who wants all secrets revealed?
Sorry, I read this post pre-coffee and completely misunderstood it. Craig = You, in the 3rd person.
Filter me out if you need to. I have almost 300 people friended.. I know what a pain it can be. LJ often feels like leaving the house w/ a faucet turned on. Ignore it for a while and come home to a flood. That said, I hope I am not apart of the TMI crowd – please call me out on it if I am, I can start making my own filters to post to. Regardless of whether you feel you’re an elitist snob, you don’t come off that way in your entries. I wouldn’t really call you abrasive. Maybe its time to start?
Hope your week looks up.. we’d miss you on LJ if you left.
I hear what you’re saying. I’ve had a “Read These” filter for years. It’s nothing personal, but there are specific people I want to keep up with because I’ve known them for a while or in “real life.” It’s next to impossible when I will friend back anyone who bothers to friend me.
What do you think the difference is between a blog and LJ? I’m thinking there is one but I can’t pin it down. Something along the lines of public thoughts/rants versus private thoughts/personal updates. With the security stuff, LJ has done good by me but maybe a real division would work better.
Anyway. What it comes down to is do what you want. Who cares if you’re perceived as arrogant? Make the LJ experience for you, the rest of the world can deal.
I hope I am not tiresome.
You’re always fun and interesting to me no worries 😉
No cry for waaa I’m leaving, just an observation about where I would best belong ( you could add my RSS to LJ if I went the solo bl-g route).
And really, I’m doing really great. Outstanding, actually.
Do you have any advice for flist pruning/filtering?
The basic part boils down to “the more I know about some people the less I like em, but still like em for their non-TMI posts, how can I keep them as friends but acoid their angsty bullshit ignorant ones?”
Yep, sounds like my own problem, huh. I think being more of a dick online may have to be the solution.
Not at all
I mean everyone can be at some point I know. I just don’t feel like there is all that much interesting going on in these parts as of late…lol.
I think I may have to get the “always rewarding LJ” filter for Monday mornings, when I’m crabby, or when I’m rushed.
It’s not all the time that the sad-sacks bother me, just when I’m also in a bit of a tired or crabby mood. Plus, I have general Internet fatigue, where I get tired of answering the same damn questions or making the same damn explanations over and over again about what a Metaphysical Naturalist is or why being offended is (good/the ofendee’s issue), etc. I just don’t care enough about the random person anymore to set them
straightcorrect.That’s what I was thinking too – cought between the “no these are secret pics” and the “document everything!” Perhpas we could have the pics, but keep the secret, keep them safe!
I struggle with that a bit, too. There are a few people on my f-list who seem to use lj just as place to complain. Really tiresome. I keep meaning to make a “no whiners” filter. But I never get around to it.
Much of it comes from LJ communities I’m part of too – hard to filter those.
Maybe you and the internet should take a breather. Read a nice book. You can pretend it’s someone really awesome LJ.. but static, on topic, and with only a few sources of information or opinion…
well, unless it’s book 2.0, then it’s the same shit.
I realized a few weeks ago that I have completely stopped frequenting internet fora (forums). It’s just too mindblowingly predictable. Wikipedia is more entertaining 😉
The plot is the same, the players merely cycle.
I’m tired of writing out posts or replies only to delete them because really, who cares about what I think.
I do. And I don’t get enough of your brains as it is. 😉
I hate my life post or a my god I’m offended at blah blah post.
Now that you mention it, the better my life becomes, the less I have to complain about, the more I seem to notice other people’s woe-posts. Specifically, there seems to be a static-ish group of people that have the same issues in unending cycles–now some people really are in bad situations not of their own making and write about that, though I’m not talking about them. It’s people that seem to do the same thing despite repeating evidence of the consequences, as if they can’t imagine conducting their lives in a different way.
Or more weirdly, people that seem to have the same bad situations occur; only the names and locations change. It’s just strange.
It’s too bad (for me and H) that you got that house – A perfect position opened here for you at my work, and Seth could have been a house husband! Ah, well. 😀
i hear ya. i think it’s funny that you post this on the heels of a spate of responding to my randomness. haha.
whatever. i think i made a post a few years back that went, “it’s just the internet, kids” or LJ or something like that.
oh wait. “noooooooooooooooo!! don’t leave uuuuuuuuus!”
i have to admit, i like keeping up w/ you & heather via the intarwebz so i have some sort of context to meet you in when we visit the west coast, y’know, every 3 years or so. i like hanging out with you guys IRL better than online, but i take what i can get, snark especially.
I’m not leaving nor making those movements, just wondering if I’d be better served by a different medium on the netz. The problem with the internet is just like the problem with everything. It’s full of people.
I mean – think how stupid the average person is. Half of ’em are stupider than that!*
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*Carlin, George.
Yours is one of the few LJs I don’t skim past with a quickness. I don’t bother to filter, I just go through REALLY REALLY quickly and open those I want to read in new tabs.
And god knows I know I’m dull as toast when I bother to post at all.
yeah! we gots ta get rid of the people!
i was having a lot of the same questions/thoughts a while back. i have alternately felt like i was exposing too much of myself, or posting inane shit with nothing in between, and the same from others. i feel caught in this loop of “well, i stay b/c there are a number of people i REALLY want to hear from, but meanwhile i have to put up with 700 other people posting uninteresting crap” – and i’m not really willing to trim my flist much. i just filter who i read, y’know?
but yeah. i don’t know what the solution is other than what i’ve been doing: skimming like crazy and having 347 filters depending on who i want to talk to.
meh.
i also go through swings of being more or less into LJ.
and now i’ve bored even myself.
Yeah, whatever, you know you’ll miss my M&M stories. 😉 (Does that come under the heading of “TMI”?)
I never have anything deep to say, but I’m starting to accept that I did all of my actual thinking when I was, like, 18 or something. Now I just want to drink champagne and play Wii and go to pole dancing class. Eh, my life could be worse, I suppose.
A perfect position opened here for you
Is therea requisition I could see?
http://www.trimet.org/jobs/07033.htm