Mass Defriending

[saifai]

Sort of.

If you're reading this, you're not affected. If you read this 2 months from now, you're still not affected.

Now, if you read this three years from now and haven't heard from me in all that time, you just might have got cut. In which case a simple note of, "Dood, what's up with that?" will immediately rectify the situation.

Here's the thing. I'm a pack rat by nature. I compulsively hoard things. They're pretty and shiny and I like them. I'm getting better about dusting every now and then with comments.

But still, no sense in keeping journals that hide from me. I can do that much without flailing.

So, the defriending commenced. I only got rid of people that have never set eyes on this journal (they don't have me friended back). Among those non-mutuals are folks that haven't seen LJ in the last 2 to 4 years, folks I don't share interests with anymore, and a few that defriended me.

One of these days I'll get rid of old communities too.

On a side note, this is the first time I've done this since the journal's creation almost six years ago.

I had a LOT of stuff to go through.

*sets clock for another 6 years*

Comments

[jack4will.livejournal.com]

Sure hope I'm staying girlfriend. *hugs*

Going to switch the layout style tomorrow to the Smooth Sailing layout style since Flexible Squares made the side bar way to long for the quotes I have posted here in my lj. *grins*

Maybe the quotes in my lj might help your creative streak. I so want to see your new Doctor Who/Torchwood layout too sometime.

[saifai.livejournal.com]

Sure hope I'm staying girlfriend. *hugs*

Of course you are. *hugs back*

Going to switch the layout style tomorrow to the Smooth Sailing
I've seen a few nice layouts and cool options in Smooth Sailing. Hopefully that one will give you what you want.

Maybe the quotes in my lj might help your creative streak.
Quotes are always helpful to me. Quotes and lovely pics.

I so want to see your new Doctor Who/Torchwood layout too sometime.
I know! I need to get my own layout done some time. I've been thinking of ideas, but I keep seeing pretty shiny things and then I can't ever decide on one thing.

[jack4will.livejournal.com]

That's one reason why I use a poll for my layouts and such. It helps me to make up my mind on which one. Though looking at the pretties helps too. *grins*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

I may have to go that route and just collect a bunch of pretties and see which ones get the highest votes. LOL

[jack4will.livejournal.com]

*snickers* It just might help you out. *grins*

[sp23.livejournal.com]

I really need to get rid of communites I don't really read or care about.

[saifai.livejournal.com]

They're so easy to collect, aren't they? I don't read half of them.

It's kind of like those old plastic cups from fast food joints. You should see the collection in my cupboard I have from Sonic alone.

[der-letze-tag92.livejournal.com]

I still have to gather the guts to defriend some communities and journals. But I'm scared, because the possibility of screwing up and defriending everything and everybody is all to possible for me. It's like, does unchecking it mean I want to keep them, or take them out of my flist? I'm making this all too complicated on myself, really. :/

[saifai.livejournal.com]

I did it through Semagic. I can highlight a name and hit remove. Less scare that way, because I had the same thought in mind when I considered it.

[der-letze-tag92.livejournal.com]

Semagic? 0.0

[saifai.livejournal.com]

You can use it to update your journal, maintain your friends lists/communities/filters, etc. Very handy program. You can find it here.

They've got a couple journals on LJ, but I think this one has the best description of what all it does.

[txrabbit.livejournal.com]

Dude! I like being hoarded!

*smootch*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

You got a special spot on the top shelf, right up front. *pets*

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

I`m getting to the point where I might do that.

[saifai.livejournal.com]

I think everyone needs to clean the house, as it were, every now and then. Especially for the communities that you never read anymore. I've got 160 people still on my friends list, and almost 200 communities. LOL

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

:::waves:::

:::clings:::


Gabrielle

[saifai.livejournal.com]

*hugs and pets*

[claudia6913.livejournal.com]

LOL I'm the same way ... don't get rid of anything. Mostly my problem is 'out of sight, out of mind'. My community list is ridiculously large and I know I don't pay attention to half of what I have on there.

[saifai.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I've got almost 200 communities on my list. Well over half I'm sure I don't read, and I'm sure there's quite a number that don't even do anything anymore.

Out of site out of mind indeed.

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

Gotta be done, sometimes, otherwise things get out of hand. I cut a lot of communities a while ago but feel another session coming on. Being multi-fandom means they stack up ridiculously easily.

Btw, hubby gave in and bought another e-reader. Knew it'd happen. *g*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

Being multi-fandom means they stack up ridiculously easily.

Indeed! I don't think I've ever cut a community before. I had too many back in ancient times when Spuffy seemed cool still.

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

One of these days I'll get rid of old communities too.

LOL, same here. I don't know why I keep them, except maybe I'm being a bit sentimental. Or just mental.

[saifai.livejournal.com]

LOL - I'm going with sentimental. I'm pretty sure I've got ancient communities in my collection from my Spuffy days. Eons ago that was.

*covets your icon* I need some Abby. *searches*

[trekqueen.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

*huggles* I love your icon. *gloms*