True. And even had your username been something like your offline name, I still probably wouldn't have remembered. I initially added you because you were part of work group, and I wanted people there to be able to read what I wrote relating to it. :)
You share but don't expect anything in return
Well, yeah. This isn't the medium to be using for that. Information needs to be shared more... directly, if one specifically wants feedback. No?
people don't seem as real if you haven't met them in person
Yes. But that doesn't mean I don't find reading about people's lives via LJ useful - I do, whether or not I've met them. It's just that if I've met and made a connection to them, I'm more likely to _want_ to read what they have to say. I know that I tend to say way, way more in writing than in spoken form, and I know I'm not the only one. I also know that I'm not the only person for whom LJ posts feel less... pushy than email. People can reply, or not - with email, people tend to feel a need to reply. Unless you state you don't need one, but still.
*shrug* Lack of a certain degree of reality doesn't mean people aren't interesting. It just means my memory files the things they say strangely, and that it'll take much much longer for me to form a sense of them. And my connection to them is much weaker.
I have no idea why, but having people tell me, in whatever words they use, that I am simply me, makes me happy. I wish I knew why that was!
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Date: 2004-02-25 04:30 pm (UTC)True. And even had your username been something like your offline name, I still probably wouldn't have remembered. I initially added you because you were part of work group, and I wanted people there to be able to read what I wrote relating to it. :)
You share but don't expect anything in return
Well, yeah. This isn't the medium to be using for that. Information needs to be shared more... directly, if one specifically wants feedback. No?
people don't seem as real if you haven't met them in person
Yes. But that doesn't mean I don't find reading about people's lives via LJ useful - I do, whether or not I've met them. It's just that if I've met and made a connection to them, I'm more likely to _want_ to read what they have to say. I know that I tend to say way, way more in writing than in spoken form, and I know I'm not the only one. I also know that I'm not the only person for whom LJ posts feel less... pushy than email. People can reply, or not - with email, people tend to feel a need to reply. Unless you state you don't need one, but still.
*shrug* Lack of a certain degree of reality doesn't mean people aren't interesting. It just means my memory files the things they say strangely, and that it'll take much much longer for me to form a sense of them. And my connection to them is much weaker.
I have no idea why, but having people tell me, in whatever words they use, that I am simply me, makes me happy. I wish I knew why that was!