LJ

[alexandral]

Something koalathebear said made me thinking about LJ, friends in real and “fanthom” life and all such things

I found LJ this summer during crazy “Battlestar Galactica” obsession period, when I was reading all Kara/Lee fan fiction I could put my hands on. My first reaction was – these people are mad writing long posts about their life and reviewing TV shows and commenting on other people’s life and so on so forth (forgive me, I never had any history of forums before) . But then, after awhile, I found that some people’s ideas are fascinating to me, that I want to talk to these people. So I joined LJ, and I love it indeed. I also would love to meet my LJ friends in the “real life”, but nobody seems live in England yet.

LJ friends are not less real to me then my RL friends (though with different kind of reality, and Internet is a REALITY of our time). There is some quality of sincerity about LJ. In a way I like the fact that I don’t really know what facial features/bodily parameters my LJ friends have. ;) This is an ideal situation – people on LJ like/dislike us by what we say and think, not how we look, smell or how rich or poor we are.

As to adding/removing from the friends list, I will not be unreasonably upset if somebody deletes me from their friends list (unless these are people with whom we talk together more, then of course I need to know why). If somebody doesn’t find my writings interesting – o well, this is life.. They have their human rights. ;)

About bitching – this is what I find REALLY unforgivable in any life – real or LJ. If you think something unflattering about a person and really-really want to voice it – go and tell it to this person’s face, otherwise keep your thoughts to yourself. I am sorry, but I think this is important. I can’t say that I never slip into bitchiness, but this is one of the things that makes me ashamed of myself if I do.

Comments

[shadowserenity.livejournal.com]

This is an ideal situation – people on LJ like/dislike us by what we say and think, not how we look, smell or how rich or poor we are.

For me, that's definitely why the internet is *love*. That, and I get to meet all types of different people. I think if I disliked someone on the net, it would be because they're rude or abrasive over poor/smelly/size/etc.

Like you, the downside to living in Australia is never having the opportunity to meet most of my friends! Most of whom are American.

I had a journal before shadowserenity and that was for communicating with friends I knew that had an lj (not real life friends, though. My encounter with people I know in RL over the net has been incredibly bad because they all seem to talk in netspeak and riddles). This account was originally for BSG fiction until I found the H/B people. On my previous account, I had *horrible* trouble writing in my lj even once a month. It was a pretty pink, however.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

You are always very open in your posts, i admire that very much!

all seem to talk in netspeak and riddles I find it hard to read if somebody speaks in netspeak and riddles all the time ( i am not educated enough in it, i am afraid ;) )
Australia is lovely!