A thank you & Defriending Amnesty
Apr. 30th, 2008 02:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raloriaFirst of all I want to thank ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
softcake_70 for the virtual gift you gave me on Sunday "Just Because". It was a totally unexpected surprise and very sweet of you. *hugs* :)
Having said that, the rest of this post might seem out of place. I was just defriended again and while it wasn't a totally unwelcome defriending, it got me to thinking (which is often very dangerous). I know I'm guilty of not replying back to people's comments. The over 2 months-worth of comments I have now will attest to that fact. I read and appreciate all the comments I receive, but when I get a lot of them I do tend to fall behind in getting back to everyone. I know this will make me a bad friend in some people's eyes and all I can say is that I try my best.
I make a lot of posts: picspams, SPN news, fanfic, fanart, episode reviews, and of course my daily "Just 'Cause" posts. Maybe I'm overdoing it? Maybe I post too much? I've thought of cutting back, but it's difficult to imagine. I enjoy doing it. Yet making so many posts is often very time-consuming and means I don't get to my comments like I should. It also means that I don't comment in other people's LJs like I should and for this I apologize.
I know there are people on my flist who I haven't made a connection with. I'm not laying any blame here or naming any names, it's just the way things go sometimes. Some of you haven't commented too much on my LJ and I also haven't commented in yours. Our mutual friending probably seemed like a good idea at the time, but for some reason we've never really formed an online relationship. It seems this was the reason for my latest defriending. *shrugs*
So I've decided it's time to make a "Defriending Amnesty" post. If you don't like my lack of replies back to your comments, if you feel we've just never connected in our interests, or if my posts are too much and you just can't handle it anymore - whatever your reason....feel free to defriend me. No questions will be asked and I will bare no hard feelings. I will return the favor: defriend you back and wish you well.
softcake_70 for the virtual gift you gave me on Sunday "Just Because". It was a totally unexpected surprise and very sweet of you. *hugs* :)Having said that, the rest of this post might seem out of place. I was just defriended again and while it wasn't a totally unwelcome defriending, it got me to thinking (which is often very dangerous). I know I'm guilty of not replying back to people's comments. The over 2 months-worth of comments I have now will attest to that fact. I read and appreciate all the comments I receive, but when I get a lot of them I do tend to fall behind in getting back to everyone. I know this will make me a bad friend in some people's eyes and all I can say is that I try my best.
I make a lot of posts: picspams, SPN news, fanfic, fanart, episode reviews, and of course my daily "Just 'Cause" posts. Maybe I'm overdoing it? Maybe I post too much? I've thought of cutting back, but it's difficult to imagine. I enjoy doing it. Yet making so many posts is often very time-consuming and means I don't get to my comments like I should. It also means that I don't comment in other people's LJs like I should and for this I apologize.
I know there are people on my flist who I haven't made a connection with. I'm not laying any blame here or naming any names, it's just the way things go sometimes. Some of you haven't commented too much on my LJ and I also haven't commented in yours. Our mutual friending probably seemed like a good idea at the time, but for some reason we've never really formed an online relationship. It seems this was the reason for my latest defriending. *shrugs*
So I've decided it's time to make a "Defriending Amnesty" post. If you don't like my lack of replies back to your comments, if you feel we've just never connected in our interests, or if my posts are too much and you just can't handle it anymore - whatever your reason....feel free to defriend me. No questions will be asked and I will bare no hard feelings. I will return the favor: defriend you back and wish you well.
