So why do you people read me, anyway?

[wispfox]

I was wondering, while driving home, what it is about my journal that makes you people want to read it.

And, for those of you who know me in person, if that is why, or if there are other reasons.

So - share! Tell me what brings you to read my journal, if you are so inclined. My curiosity wants to know!

Comments

[echospiralheart.livejournal.com]

I met you at the energy shares and then working group at homeport. You have good energy, and I am comfortable with you. When I first came to live journal, you graciously accepted me into your list of friends. Come to learn, you weren't quite sure who I was in the beginning under the name of echospiralheart. You were one of the first journals that I read. Your write what is in your heart. You share anger. You share joy. I like people who aren't afraid to share. It makes me want to share. Your journal has helped me get to know you. My heart reaches out to you in the things that you share. You share but don't expect anything in return. You are just you. I remember one of your posts where people don't seem as real if you haven't met them in person, but for me, seeing the written word ... people sharing this way ... I get to know them. You are someone I think of as friend.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

weren't quite sure who I was in the beginning

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!

[echospiralheart.livejournal.com]

:smiles: this made me all warm and fuzzy inside, but I couldn't tell you exactly why. :)

I think I may be grokking what you mean by in real life versus email/phone/lj.

:) Feeling good today. :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Warm and fuzzzy... :)

Also. Yay groking! Groking is goooood.