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[liveinthelayers]

My Christmas gift to myself was to read through this journal and tag all the entries. December is this journal's birf--I started it four years ago when I got back from studying abroad in South Africa. (I've been LJ-ing since high school, but felt that the HS and early college journal needed to be different from the Cape Town one, and that life

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[oneworldvision]

I've limited my Facebook use for some of those same reasons (and because my dad's on there now, but mostly the other stuff). It just doesn't seem to bring out the best in anyone. Like, someone from high school with whom I don't remember ever having a single conversation just sent me a friend request, four years after we graduated. I accepted it, not because I was even remotely curious about what he's been up to, but because I derive some sort of weird pleasure from letting everyone from CarMac see how much better off I am without them. That's ridiculously petty and self-indulgent.

I want to unfriend them all at this point, but I worry that somewhere down the line someone's going to get butthurt about it and I'm too lazy to deal with that ~drama~.

[liveinthelayers]

Ugh, it's such a mess. It's really hard for me to admit my bad intentions with fb. It makes me feel like a garbage monster.

[oneworldvision]

Me too. But then, the idea of severing fb "friendships" with people I have no use for makes me feel callous. I can't win at the internet.

[liveinthelayers]

God damn that World Wide Web!

[jerseykat]

Ah! I really want to do this. I have way too many friends on there and so many from college that I just don't care about, but then I feel bad because its all such a close group that butthurt will occur and drama will ensue.

[liveinthelayers]

I love that both you and Caitlin used the phrase "butthurt" when describing facebook drama. It's apt.

I've tried to keep my feelings about social interactions in person separate from feelings about social interactions online, but it's just not possible. (i.e. I like to think someone unadding me on fb wouldn't hurt, but it probably would!)

The best idea I can find is to hide updates from annoying peeps, and keep them from seeing mine--but keeping them as friends somewhere in limbo. And trying not to go online so much. Oi.

[jerseykat]

Haha, it is the best way to describe it! I have begun to hide updates of people, especially those apt to FarmVille and other crap. I've been more posty about what I'm writing as opposed to any real status. I hate facebook, remember when all we had were land lines? And like if you made plans with someone and wanted to cancel, you really couldn't because they weren't home from school yet and that land line was your ONLY way of communicating? I really miss that.

[liveinthelayers]

Ahhh true, that was a simpler time. Though I broke up with my high school love (vom) because I threw him a birthday party, but he couldn't make it and he let me know on my AIM away message. Neither of us had cell phones!

Ugh. Maybe I'll move to a cottage in the woods and only read snail mail :/