On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 [email protected] wrote:

> Yes, THIS. I don't want to stop keeping up with my friends' lives
> simply because they use Twitter and I don't want to read their
> twits. My friends and I don't always enjoy the same things, and
> that's fine.
>
> Then again, on LJ the vast majority of people I have friended are
> actual friends. I know others don't use it the same way.

For me it's a mix of actual friends and people who post things
that I want to read whether we are friends or not.  Either way,
there's something there that I want to read in spite of the
other, annoying stuff.  And I feel it's intrusive and rude to ask
people to filter me out of topics, which is the other option when
people post a lot on a topic you don't want to read--both because
there is a limited number of filters you can have, and also
because it would mean that they couldn't post on that topic
publicly.

I mean, if somebody says that they have a sex filter, and a
religion filter, and a politics filter, and which ones would I
like to be on, I will answer them honestly.  But if someone else
wants to make long public posts about their squicky-to-me sex
practises or X political cause with which I vehemently disagree,
they have the right to do that.  And I have the obligation (in my
opinion) not to read it and create unnecessary drahma.

Collapsovision or tag filtering would just make this easier.

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Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy)
ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness

"I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it
think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry
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