Mildly Amused

[rejectomorph]

Who is green_tree, and why has his odd behavior provoked such outrage? Is he, in actuality, the Hideous Penguin Boy? The LJ drama continues. Stay tuned for the next inevitable installment.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I think most folks don't want to ba associated with him because of his interest list. This seems to happen every so often... some monkey just adds a zillion people, usually in the hopes that they'll get at least a half-zillion reciprocal adds.

Many people don't understand that the nature of LJ is that you can read other folk's public entries. I've wanted to shake off the dead wood (long abandoned journals) off of my list, just so I can see who's really alive.

[rejectomorph]

As I said in another reply on this page, I doubt that treeboy is actually reading all those journals he has listed. He's probably just a bored kid seeking drama. The really weird people who are reading this stuff are probably not the ones who add us to their friends lists, but the ones who just lurk in anonymity. People just have to realize that, unless they make their posts friends-only or private, the next Charley Manson could be reading them right now. They can't expect complete privacy here any more than they can expect it if they write a letter to the editor of their newspaper.

There are a few journals listing me as a friend which appear to be dead, but I can't be sure, because some people use them only for reading, and have no inclination to either post or comment. A few months ago, I removed from my friends list a journal I thought was dead, because there had been no posts in it for almost a year, and I had received no comments from the owner. A couple of days later, that journal vanished from my friend-of list, as well. Apparently, the owner was paying attention.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I tend to delete folks that haven't posted ina long while, just to shake the apples free of the tree, as it were. Only rarely have they returned to remove me back. I keep a few people on my firend's list, even though they rarely post (some haven't written in over a year!) but I know they keep the friend's list to read.

I generally email folks to introduce myself, and let them know that I'm reading 'em, now, just in case they have some sort of heebie geebies about a stranger linking in.