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[mrissa]

I've done some defriending. It doesn't mean that I am not friends with those people. I've just had a lot going on, and I'm experimenting with lj use in the interim. I may refriend some of those defriended, or I may defriend more people. Hard to say. Nor can I spell it.

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[scott-lynch.livejournal.com]

Defriending is such a wonderfully ominous term...

"Today I went around the house, spraying for friends. I also set out some traps, and fixed the men up with tick-and-friend collars..."

[windcedar.livejournal.com]

*giggles madly* Definitely won't have to worry about an excess-friend problem after that. :)

The word makes me think of defenestration. (Out the window with you! Yes, you! *sounds of shattered glass*)

...OK, have had way too much caffeine tonight, and still not finished homework, so must get back to that. Note to the inestimable (http://mrissa.livejournal.com/profile): feel free to defriend me if you like, or have the need to, and don't worry about it.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"I've done some defriending."

Always fraught with danger.

B

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No kidding. But I do better interacting with some people in person and on e-mail than on lj, for various reasons, and I'd rather keep pleasant interactions in those forms than ruin them with a format that's not conducive to the way I relate to the person.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Would that I had learned this lesson sooner....

[davidbain.livejournal.com]

At first glance I read this as "I'm done defending."

Which would be quite the life decision.

That is all.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

The word 'defriend' is one of the reasons I don't have a Friends list. And boy does it look weird.

Huh...

[ammitbeast.livejournal.com]

As one of the defriended, should I be offended...?

Most of my entries are now filtered, so the option is available to ask to be removed, which in turns cuts down the number of my entries in your FL (and my entries are very infrequent these days, as is).

-- Wondering What I Wrote that Offended...

Re: Huh...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, you shouldn't be offended, nor am I indicating that I am. All defriending means is that I am no longer committing to reading your lj entries as they come up. As with most of the people I defriended, I will probably stop by irregularly. If that's not what you want out of people on your filters or your friendslist, I will of course not be offended to be removed from filters or from your friendslist. If you don't think of your friendslist as time-sensitively reciprocal, then of course you'll have different factors to consider in that decision.