A Poll on Defriendings and Disagreements

[dolorous_ett]

It's that time of year again. Strong opinions are being voiced. People are making angry posts - and popping up in other people's journals to make angry comments. Defriending is in the air.[Poll #1191642][Poll #1191642]  ETA: Thank you for all your enlightening comments! I will reply to all as soon as current RL work crisis is resolved.

Comments

[fungus-files.livejournal.com]

My flist is now about the right size for the amount of time I can spend on LJ and feel that I'm connecting with people and their thoughts. I've also trimmed my comms memberships way down. I guess when I used to be more interested in HP and its meta, I had a bunch more ppl/comms listed but, as others have said above, my prime reason for defriending is drifting interests or dwindling connection.

And that last little box is WAY too small: I've never defriended someone for what they posted/thought on issues, etc. Whether that was because I'd selected specific kinds of folk to friend in the first place...who knows? I probably wouldn't enjoy having someone on the flist with whom I often and violently disagreed, but agreeing to disagree works most of the time in the situations I've been in (not v. exciting ones in comparison with the grander wankyworld that can be fandom).