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[thefairmelissa]

I have reduced the number of people on my friends list - simply because I'm having trouble keeping up with everybody. I'm at a stage of life where I need to build better relationships with the people I know well, rather than more relationships with people I only know slightly

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[editor]

You could just take people you don't know so well off your Default View...? It's your choice, of course, but some of us enjoy our glimpses into other lives!

[thefairmelissa]

Years ago I did go through a phase of doing just that, but after a bit it just felt dishonest, somehow. And now Facebook has become the place where people I haven't seen in over a decade are my "friend" on my "friendslist" and tell me random things about their lives on at least a weekly basis, and in turn suffer my own bizarre status updates, I just feel that I want my LJ to serve a rather different function. I go in fits and starts with LJ - I was not a regular updater for the best part of 18 months whilst in Brussels, and it would honestly have taken months for people to realise if I'd dropped dead, rather than just not posted for a bit.

But all that said, the icon you've used makes me feel very guilty!

[emmavescence]

I will miss you lots :( I've always enjoyed reading your journal, ever since you were in Austria (or was it before?!), and I always find the time to read your entries sooner or later. I've not had that much time for LiveJournal recently, so I don't always do a very thorough catch up on the whole friends page, and I'm not commenting and connecting with people as much anymore, nor writing proper entries. As much as I do love my new life with the career and the social life and the people actually here in person who care, it's quite sad, becasue things like this are starting to happen where interesting people I felt quite attached to and cared about for years are noticing that I'm becoming a boring and rubbish LJ friend and cutting the ties :( It does make me very sad, and I did always hope that one day we'd make the effort to meet up, maybe with Graham and Sabrina as well (who I'd also love to meet) and have a mini TheSite meet/reunion thing. I don't hold it against you though - we only have so much time, so it's understandable that you'

[seren]

Take care xx

[elisakate]

good luck with your wedding and everything melissa, im so happy for you :] i apologise for not commenting very often, i think in a way i feel very in awe of you and it usually stops me from saying anything i would like to say. but yes. good luck :]

[kangaroo]

Hm, prob not a good post to reply to and say I'd love to be mutual friends, if only to hear all your good house-owning tales as an antidote to Helen's tales of misery then :D (have a feeling we may have met at Cel's many moons ago - but could be wrong on that one.. I see your comments on lots of other people's journals tho.)