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 Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:59 am
Don't you hate it? No matter where you go, especially online, someone is doing something that is just clearly for attention. Sexual names on Gaia. Pretending to be a n00b. You know the type.
Someone on my LiveJournal friendslist did something that I just feel is COMPLETE attention begging, whether the person is aware of it or not. Sometimes I really think people don't realize that's what it is. But honestly. She deleted everyone off of her list, then made a public post calling us losers and saying that if we really want to be let back on, we should comment asking her and then she'd think about it. I go to her info page? Everyone who commented was let back on. I did comment, but I was the ONLY one out of at least twenty people who didn't go, "HUGSOMGILOVEYOULETMEBACKPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!" Because really, the entry was just BEGGING for that. I simply said that I liked having her on my list, but if she really thinks I'm a loser and really wants me gone I'll be happy to oblige and delete her as well.
And people do that ALL THE TIME. If anyone here has an LJ, they know that it is completely the center of drama for the internet. Or any interent diary, really. It pisses me off. If someone REALLY thought everyone on their list was a loser and REALLY wanted more privacy, they would just delete them all and not say a word about it. Or, if they did, not say a word about adding people back if they begged for it. Ugh. It just reminds me of a few years ago when my friendslist (most of us all had each other added) had a plague of people "getting sick of LJ" and "deleting their journals" to "never come back." Most undeleted the journal within 24 hours, saying they changed their mind. Grr.
Okay, so this is half a rant so that it stays out of my journal and I don't piss off the people on my list that I'm usually nice to. But seriously. Anyone else have stories of people begging for attention, from Gaia or elsewhere?
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:38 am
see, THAT is why i don't have a livejournal. i don't NEED that s**t. DD: LJ breeds drama, it's like what standing water does for mosquitos >[[[
all of my friends at school have LJs, and i don't, because i just .. don't need that sort of drama.. and one of my friends goes on and on and whines about everything that goes on in her life in her journal, and expects me to know about it all even though she knows i don't have an LJ. she thinks i should read it anyway, and i'm just like... gah. I don't view reading an online journal to be a valid form of communication. If someone wants me to know something, they damn well better tell me, instead of just leaving a vague note in a place they think i'll check and find it. ******** that.
now. attentionwhoring. how about all of the "i'm going to leave gaia/AT/whateversubforum" threads, from back when any of us still bothered to frequent the main forums? when Popple threatened to leave AT, she created such drama that she ended up getting an angelic sash out of it. :/ so of course, she stayed. if people really wanted to leave, they'd do it quietly, just tell a few friends via PM perhaps, or leave a post in a thread they frequented, and then leave. leave, as in, not come back the next day. :/ that's what i did, i just put a post in my rating thread that i was going, said a bit of a goodbye, and got my a** out of there. i didn't even do it at peak hours, because i wanted to avoid all the attention.
i mean, at times, we all want it. everyone writes an angsty journal entry or a long rant, or even more mild things like overhumbling onesself, adding in things like "cuz i suck like that", hoping that someone will rush in and say "no no no, you're wonderful!". everyone loves an egoboost now and then, hell, i guess everyone needs an egoboost now and then. but i can't help but think that those ways of going about it, those ways of trying to get ones ego stroked, are well.. ********' irritating. and unhealthy. and i think if everyone tried to "stroke eachother's egos" a bit more without that kind of prompting, or more like just.. show appreciation a bit more without that kind of prompting, maybe it wouldn't happen as much.
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:46 pm
I agree, with most points. I love my LJ, I'd never dream of not having it. But I don't have it for people to pity me, I have it because writing about things that bother me in itself helps me get over them. Yes, I'm guilty of writing entries and then hoping people will say comforting words. But there are the people who do that all the time, and then get seriously pissed if they don't think that enough people comment to their entries. I only have one friend from school on my livejournal, and neither of us expect that the other has read recent entries. I just... don't have my journal for the sake of relaying information to other people. I just allow them to read it if they want to.
And wow, an Angelic Sash? I didn't know that. That's just lame. I don't know if I could accept something like that if it was just a bribe to get me to stay. Maybe if it was someone I didn't know at all, then I'd laugh about it and take it. Unless that was her complete purpose of the threat... Which, and I'm saying this while not knowing her at all, is not all that doubtful. I've noticed that most people on Gaia are like that.
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:42 pm
Ledell And wow, an Angelic Sash? I didn't know that. That's just lame. I don't know if I could accept something like that if it was just a bribe to get me to stay. Maybe if it was someone I didn't know at all, then I'd laugh about it and take it. Unless that was her complete purpose of the threat... Which, and I'm saying this while not knowing her at all, is not all that doubtful. I've noticed that most people on Gaia are like that. aye, i'd be more comfortable taking something like that from a complete stranger than anyone i knew at all XDDD i don't know if she just did it for items or really considered leaving, but i think it's all stupid anyway. D<
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:52 pm
[Vi]x2 Section Ledell And wow, an Angelic Sash? I didn't know that. That's just lame. I don't know if I could accept something like that if it was just a bribe to get me to stay. Maybe if it was someone I didn't know at all, then I'd laugh about it and take it. Unless that was her complete purpose of the threat... Which, and I'm saying this while not knowing her at all, is not all that doubtful. I've noticed that most people on Gaia are like that. aye, i'd be more comfortable taking something like that from a complete stranger than anyone i knew at all XDDD i don't know if she just did it for items or really considered leaving, but i think it's all stupid anyway. D< I'm pretty sure Popple actually wanted to leave, but I'm not sure. She's one of my friends, but I've only talked to her 3 or 4 times, so... I had an LJ once, but I stopped using it after I saw most people on there were just attentionwhoring. D:<
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:41 pm
i stick to xanga, where you don't have friendlists. And myspace where you can't chat with people not on your friendlist.
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:07 pm
Argh, people are stupid. D:<
I'm not allowed to use livejournal anymore. :O
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:15 am
I tried Xanga, but everyone on it that I came across were really annoying. There may be drama on LJ, but at least the people I normally come across don't seem like thirteen year olds on crack.
I have a MySpace, but I only check for messages and stuff about once a week, if that. I mostly got it because someone at school kept asking me to get one.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:05 pm
I actually don't like writing a lot in my LJ because then I have nothing to talk about with my friends. I'll start to tell them something and they'll be like, "Oh, yeah. Read it on your LJ." And then I'm just, "Oh, okay. So what's new with you?" "Ugh, I had this fight with my mom... but I don't wanna type it out again. Read it on my LJ."
And so on. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:07 pm
Oh the perks of not having friends that read my LJ. xd Well, okay, one of them does.
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