Friending policy? Idk.

[hardparade]

*is exhausted*

OKAY. I just changed my layout, and then went through and unlocked all of my fic and all of my fandom-related entries that didn't include too much RL stuff. I left most of my much older entries locked...just because I got lazy.

I feel a lot more organised.

And now, I hate to do this, but:

FRIENDS CUT.

BUT NOT THE USUAL KIND.

Just, a lot of people have friended me since I went on lockdown so they could read my fic, and now that my fic's public again I want to give them the chance to de-friend me if they like. XD Also, if you added me a while ago and feel we've drifted apart fandom-wise, this is your chance to de-friend me without awkwardness. You don't have to say anything. I'll de-friend you too unless I really like reading your posts or something, idk.

AT THE SAME TIME, this is also a chance for any lurkers to add me. I've never really had an official sticky post about my friending policy, mainly because I don't really have a friending policy. But I've recently become aware that I do actually have lurkers. WHICH IS FINE, srsly, but if you want to friend me, do. If you just want to get my public updates on your flist that's fine, and if you want me to add you back, let me know.

Aaand I might go through my flist and delete some people I really haven't heard from in ages or whatever, but I don't know, honestly this isn't the sort of thing I make a big deal of and I've managed up until now to avoid making any kind of friends cuts at all. But if I de-friend you and it's a horrible mistake, just say! THIS WHOLE THING MAKES ME NERVOUS, I DON'T WANT TO MAKE YOU NERVOUS TOO. ♥

Comments

[gossymer.livejournal.com]

Just friended due to the lock down but apart from Skins (which I don't follow) I tend to read all the fandom posts :)

People usually either flock RL/personal posts or filter them to only a select group of people - or end up creating a separate community for fanworks whether they be fics, art or picspams, LOL

Personally, I leave my LJ open, flock anything personally related (which isn't much since its a fandom!LJ) and in the past 6 months created two communities - one for layouts and graphics and the other for file sharing. I think people like the separation 'cause the layout comm just crossed 700 watchers and the filesharing comm (which is members only) has 500+.

I've noticed that only a fraction of mutual friends have friended the other two comms but a lot of people who were lurking/tracking/finding me through my posts on general comms were now on my own comms.

OH GOD, RAMBLING, WILL SHUTUP NAO D:

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Filtering always seemed too complicated for me. I've considered making a separate fanworks journal but I really don't post ~personal~ entries often enough for that to be necessary, I think. It's really only occasionally. So I'll probably just keep things the way they are. Thank you for the advice! It's good to know how other people deal with these things, haha.

[gossymer.livejournal.com]

I used to be the opposite - didn't post enough layouts and uploads to warrant another comm - but LJ posting habits changed over time XD

Been going hunting for interesting LJs to friend lately, so have been thinking about it for a while - it sucks to keep stumbling onto LJs that are completely locked down or posts have now been overwhelmed with twitter logs D: D:

Hope thinks work out *hugs*