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[muckefuck]

Sixteen years on the Internet, and I still can't tell what anyone thinks of me. I thought for sure foodpoisoningsf would deFriend me again after the last time I ended up insulting him in his journal. But it's been a couple weeks and the axe hasn't fallen, so I guess I'm out of the woods if still not exactly in good graces.

So then today I go to comment in someone's journal and find that I can't: He's banned me. Maybe I've got a quaint idea of netiquette, but I always thought it was customary to at least give someone a head's up. Provided they weren't obvious trolls or harassers, of course. But given that this is someone that I've actually taken out to dinner before, I didn't think I'd qualify as either.

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[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

I never tell anyone- or threaten- that I'm going to defriend them.

It just happens.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Defriending isn't banning. It doesn't mean that you don't care for the other person's thoughts, just that you don't want to see them on your Friends page every day. As you may remember, I've actively encouraged people to defriend me if they find they're not really reading my entries.

Banning is something else. It sends the message that you never want to hear anything that person ever has to say again ever. It's no wonder I take it a little more personally

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

Except that if you have a friends-only blog, they can't read you if they've been de-friended.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

True, but I have a policy of not reading friends-only blogs on LJ in the first place.

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

Then I guess you'll have to de-friend me.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Too late; you're grandfathered in.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Does that make me grandmothered?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Not unless there's something highly improbable you haven't told us about!