Maintenance

I’m going to be doing some upkeep on this LJ account.  This means trimming my “friends” list and group subscriptions.  There are a couple of reasons for this.  The first and biggest is that I’ve decided to partition my online personas.  In a perfect world I would be completely transparent about every facet of my life here.  However in this world, I have children, family, and employers who are likely to stumble across this journal, if they haven’t already.  By choosing to use my real name on here, I’ve ensured that anyone looking me up will quickly find this journal.  And since I have committed to making this an all-public journal, I don’t have the fig leaf of “friends-locked” or “grouped” entries to hide behind.  So from now on this will be my PG-13 (or at most R) -rated journal.

The second and smaller reason is that my “friends” list has gotten rather large and unwieldy, with a fair amount of journals that are either defunct or are by people I don’t really know or talk to at all.

What this means for you, the reader: absolutely nothing, most likely.  This is not where you tell me that you want to stay on my friends list.  I have said it before: I consider the “Friends” list to be nothing more than an aggregation list, a list of the journals I feel like reading every day.  Being on it does not make you my friend, nor does absence from it mean you are not my friend.  Furthermore, since this is a public-only journal, being taken off of my friends list will have absolutely no effect on your being able to read or comment on my posts.  All of my posts on this journal will remain public, for anyone in the world to read.

If you would like to be notified if and when I create any other, private personas, let me know in a comment and I’ll get in touch with you privately when that happens.

Any questions, feel free to comment.

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32 Comments

  1. If you like to keep me that is fine. It would be nice to read more about what is going on in your life if you wish to do so under a different name.

    1. Give me an email address to send the information to either here or in an email to avdi at avdi dot org, and I’ll let you know when I create a new identity.

      1. you can email me at alannakitty(at)earthlink(dot)net

  2. I don’t know if you’re considering cutting me or not, but I thought I’d give you a heads-up that I usually unfriend people who unfriend me. I, like you, have way too many on my friends list.

  3. sign me up re: private journal.

    ps: what’s with the tiny comment font now?

  4. I would like to know if you make another LJ account. I know I don’t talk to you that much, but I do enjoy reading your posts.

    *Misses the days when all my friends were closer together.*

    1. Give me an email address to send the information to either here or in an email to avdi at avdi dot org, and I’ll let you know when I create a new identity.

      1. Ach, sorries. Strahd414 at gmail dot com.

  5. See…this is where my “Circles” idea would come to play….

    All those people would merely be in the peripheral and not considered friends. Unless you brought them up to that level.

    😉

    1. which few do because it’s such tedious work…

      and because most social programs have a singular category “friends” and by default any new add is placed there. Rather than being placed in a lower level of associate or acquaintance.

    2. See, that’s where you and I differ… I have no desire to impose categories on my circle. People are as close to me as I and they both want… and that may change over time. I prefer to let whoever wants to read what I have to say.

      Even if I start a “private” journal it will still be completely public – it just won’t be linked to my name.

      1. I’ll have to think about how to incorporate such a philosophy…

        😉

  6. Please notify me!

    if you create a new personality..

    email is gothkiller at exceedinglywarmmail dot com

  7. Yes, I have a question, what did you eat for dinner to night?

    And

    Do you get belly lint?

    1. I don’t know yet

      And

      No; as a baby, my navel was given an experimental Teflon coating.

    2. Oops, that was me.

  8. I’ve thought about trimming things, but it seems too much work. I read what I wish. I post little, but I don’t post much of any interest to anyone. Let those who “take-what-I-say-and-use-it-for-evil” do so. I really don’t give a rat’s hind-quarters.

    Anyway, that’s all. If there’s no drama, noone’s acting, right?

    1. If you want, give me an email address to send the information to either here or in an email to avdi at avdi dot org, and I’ll let you know when I create a new identity.

  9. I want to know about your private personas (or was that personal privates?…. I can’t remember) Either way… I’d like to be notified! *grin*

  10. i’d love to know more of what’s really going on with you.

    1. Give me an email address to send the information to either here or in an email to avdi at avdi dot org, and I’ll let you know when I create a new identity.

  11. I know I don’t comment a lot in your journal Avdi, but I really enjoy reading you thoughts and opinions.
    I remember once you gave me some very good advice about being in love, and not letting love be the only thing that modivates me. You were so right about that.

    I have been your LJ friend for quite a while, and I hope that when you are trimming your friends list down you will consider keeping me there.

    Thanks

    1. If you want, give me an email address to send the information to either here or in an email to avdi at avdi dot org, and I’ll let you know when I create a new identity.

  12. I submit my request. 😉

      1. *hug* Hey girl! What have you been up to lately? 🙂

    1. Give me an email address to send the information to either here or in an email to avdi at avdi dot org, and I’ll let you know when I create a new identity.

  13. i’d like to know but will also understand if you prefer to limit a truly private journal to people you know better

    1. Holy silent lurker batman!

      Been awhile since I saw that username on here… how the heck are you?

      1. Re: Holy silent lurker batman!

        lol actually i havent been lurking, i just havent been on though i am trying to re-get myself into it. i did make a comment just after new years. i am well but busy, and largely busy online which, for me, has made being online for fun less appealing.

    2. Just to be sure I have your current address, would you send me an email to avdi at avdi dot org? Thanks!

  14. If you go somewhere private, and you don’t mind me coming along, I’m game.

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