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boglin ([personal profile] boglin) wrote2008-06-02 12:47 pm

Friend or acqaintance

Today's question - again out of interest (I'm pondering how I use LJ atm)

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[identity profile] boglin.livejournal.com 2008-06-03 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I'm not thinking of culling - just of simplifying the ludicrously obsessive-compulsive custom lists I have, and thinking about how close I am to people and how close they feel to me as one factor in the simplication. And I case of pondering ones friendslist and just out of interest wondering if relationships are reciprical. I think there are people you are *close* to and people you find interesting, and although as you say we're not really the former, I'd have you in the latter category!

[identity profile] westernind.livejournal.com 2008-06-03 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Bryan's right about geography. If I lived in Brum, I'd actively seek out your company, face to face. As it is, that's in future. One day we'll move out of London, but not yet.

I've got a lot of geographically separated friend/acquaintances (most of them acquired through LRP) that I don't want to lose touch with. I arrange my own custom lists into two simple groups. People I trust with secrets (about half, and you're in that list), and people I don't feel as close to. I also have a Default group defined, so that I don't have to read, on a daily basis, compulsive wittering and meme-posting by people I don't actually want to de-friend.