Cleaning Up the Old Flist

[lookfar]

I went through my friends list and deleted accounts not heard from in many a long year. If you are still reading mine and want to be added, just speak up. I think I've got it right, so I don't expect to hear from anyone. There was someone who disappeared about eight years ago, and I've always missed her, isn't that silly?

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

I have several people like that.

I keep them on my flist in case I ever have a burning desire to read their past (locked) entries.

Also, I think maybe more than you, I end up meeting and even befriending people on my flist, and it seems rude somehow to delete people who send me Christmas cards.

Plus, ya never know. In this past year, two people whose LJs I enjoyed began posting regularly again after years of radio silence.

[lookfar]

Ah, but you are wrong, my little cat. I have met a lot of my flist in the meatworld. It seemed dangerous at first to mix, you know, the place where I confess my character defects and evil thoughts with persons who know where I live, but actually, it has worked out well. One thing that surprised me was that I was rarely surprised by people when I met them. I mean, they seemed pretty much as they represented themselves, or as I observed them through their journals. It was encouraging.

[mallorys_camera]

Good! Because, of course, I'd like to meet you some day. :-)

Do you know the John Wyndham novel Rebirth? (It also goes by the name The Chrysalids.) It's a YA sci fi novel about a group of teenagers after the Big Bomb Apocalypse who develop an interesting form of mental telepathy. The teenagers rarely meet in real life, so they wouldn't recognize each other if they passed one another on the street. But naturally, they have a deep psychological familiarity with one another.

There's a whole little crew of us here on LJ for whom Rebirth is the operative LJ metaphor. :-)

[amorettea]

There are several people who I miss. A few, sadly, I have reason to believe, have died. Some have just moved on.

[lookfar]

It's the disappearing that I feel sad about. Her name was LittleLizzieAnn, and her journal is still up. Every few years I go and leave her a note.

[northernwalker]

There was one person I really liked talking to who suddenly stopped posting entirely, and I don't know what happened. I sent a couple of PMs and she didn't respond, so I have no clue where she is now. :(

[colestainedpage]

I don't find it silly at all. I have many a friend that stopped posting, but I miss them and refuse to delete them from my list just in case.

Also, hello again! It was lovely to have met you via gansje. I see that we have two other LJ friends in common as well. Is LJ that small a world now or have we both just been lucky enough to "meet" the same amazing people?

[lookfar]

Of course we do, because she's so friendly, that she has many other friendly friends!