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Okay.

So I should be like, working, or something--but I can't find it in me to much care.

I've been thinking about posting up some sort of FAQ or facts about myself, you know--a free book of cluepons for the newbies here. There've been a lot of folks adding me, lately. And I realize that, by talking about stuff that's long in the past, I will be having some folks scratchin' 'ey heads.

So maybe for Part the First, I shall talk about my reasons for friending folks.



One reason is because I write, and I have, before I ever started trying to record these stories, always enjoyed hearing stories. True or not. I love hearing a good yarn. Hell, I like hearing the bad ones. So I friend people that I find to be of some interest.

I personally seldom "unfriend" people. I only take people off the list that cause me problems. I don't opt onto sex-filters--mainly because I'd rather be having sex than talking about it. And, really--I'd rather just know you wee denizens for who you are Outside the Bedroom. Except for one of you. And that one I married. I have also taken people off that haven't posted in forty thousand years. But these days, I just don't bother. If you write, I read it, mostly.

I scroll. I will pass up a post about the fact that the laundry got done and etc. I only got so much room in my brain.

I don't expect anyone to stay on my "friend-of" list. I friended you guys without really bothereing to figure out your criteria for a good f-lister, and if I get the cut, that's okay. It would suck to lose someone whose journal is Friends-Only, but what can you do? I also realize that I am not the most pleasant creature in the world, that I am crass and chock full of The Madness. This will put some people off as well.

I don't put up with shit in my personal journal. Any offending views that I find make no sense to me, after my token attempts to understand them, may very well get deleted.

I don't pull posts. If I write something that triggers a shitstorm, I leave it up.

I have, for the most part, been able to avoid the craptastic aspects of LJ for quite a while, by having my shit all be Fonly. I had to, at the time. Now everything is opened up, and so, as I wander through the net, I expect to clash with people. I'm okay with that.

Clashing with people, upon occasion, appears to be my kharma. I have accepted who I am, and that I have moments of rightness and wrongness, and I'm okay with it.

Most of the people on my f-list and f-of are connected through some way or fashion through my originally friended and their friends. I don't tend to troll for interests, but I will friend so-and-so's husband or cousin, or what have you.

There's two reasons for this:

They, if I have a good scope on the first person, might come highly recommended.

They also give me a better focus on the first person, what their story is.

I don't really filter shit. There's no real pile of filters here. I tend to just put things up that I want to have up, and if they are long, they get a cut--one I hope is descriptive enough to allow people to choose whether or not they want to link-chase.

I can't really think of anything else, right now, but if I do, it'll get a post, and maybe they'll share the same tag.
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