transitions..
transitions..
As anyone who’s read this journal, I’ve had my love and hate moments with this LiveJournal thing. I started it out because I thought it would be a good idea to have a place to journal that (seemingly) aligned with my lifestyle - any computer anywhere can be used to update. Cool. Then there’s friends. I’ve not really tried hard at all to amass a bunch of friends, or communities, or anythign like that, as I have discovered that people I know have journals, I’ve added them. Occasionally I review my friends list and notice that there are people who have “friended” me without any notice. That’s cool, usually, and sometimes it’s a nice surprise to suddenly find yourself kinda in touch with an old friend. Then there are others, who ARE these people anyways? There are a couple people in my friends list who i have little or no real contact: JWZ is my favorite, he and i exchanged a couple of emails in 1994 or so, he’s one of the original developers of Mosaic (i think) and Netscape who took his IPO bucks and walked, deciding to create a night club. Gotta love that. Lucifero.. I have no idea who he is, I think he’s Italian, he writes in Italian, but he posts some stunning sunset photos on occasion. I’ve occasionally translated his posts, but not excessively, so he remains a mystery to me, and I’m ok with that. Then there are the people who I have friended for one reason or other. Maybe they friended me, maybe I just learned about their LJ from reading someone else’s friends list and decided I wanted to keep track of them. Maybe over time they friend me back, maybe not. But there’s another category that got me to open this window and start writing in it. It’s the people who, once upon a time, were mutually friended, but not any more. I remember some time ago one person i know getting bent out of shape because someone else had unfriended them on LiveJournal. It was portrayed as some kind of personal affront, and received with some level of upset. At the time, I wondered WTF, get over it, grow up. But now I understand a little better. What does one do in this case? here I am, I’ve got these “friends” who apparently don’t reciprocate the feeling now. I guess it’s just time to move on, and not belabor the point any more than I already have. Irony is that it’ll be a silent transition for them, since they’re not reading my journal any more, and this is a friends only post. Shift happens.