Day 83: PSA - Spring Cleaning

[anarchist_nomad]

Posting about the weekend to follow later. Or tomorrow. At the moment, this is just a quick FYI:

Of late, I have found my f-list too cumbersome to follow regularly. This results in many things being skipped or missed. Not good. To make following more manageable, I have now performed my annual[*] ritual -- The Culling Of The F-list. As always, I have based this on (a) how frequently others post (i.e., how much of an investment of my time it takes to read their journal), and (b) how frequently they reply to my entries or comments (i.e., how much time they have chosen to invest in me).

Please be assured that I am not making a statement about anyone by removing them from my f-list. I strongly dislike the terms "friend list" and "defriending" and whatnot -- it sounds so personal! This is just simple mathematics; there is not enough time in the day to read everything... so I have to choose to interact most with those who are interacting with me.

Thank you very much. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Sunday Evening...

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[*] I use the term "annual" loosely; the previous culling was about fourteen months ago.

Comments

[blaisepascal]

If you are willing to engage with Google (corporate motto: don't be evil!), there's Google Buzz. It's sort of somewhere in between Twitter (in that it's real-time, automatically distributed to follower's Buzz pages, etc) and LJ (in that there is no 140-character limit, you can post pictures, etc).

The 140char limit in Twitter is a hold-over from when Twitter was mainly SMS-based, which used a normally-unused channel capable of sending 140characters.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Oh -- interesting! I had always wondered where that 140 character limit came from, given that a typical SMS has a 160 character limit!

*grins* Leave it to you to know such things, old friend!

[blaisepascal]

Well, the other 20 characters are Twitter overhead.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Gotcha -- that makes sense!