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[firsttiger]

I'm pretty sure that if I disappeared tomorrow, 99% of my online friends wouldn't notice....I also think that is my own fault. I've given up in trying to cultivate things beyond a person here or there. Too many times of feeling burned has me in a weird place about my online interactions right now.

But it's also ok. My life isn't here any more. Not that it ever was so.... I exist more offline as the days pass because I never was fully invested. Now all of the anger and anguish keep me away as the constant barrage of what is negative seems to dominate. Cute kittens can only do much in the face of what online is now.

I miss netiquette. I miss good old-fashioned beating down of people being hateful. Calling out someone being hateful now leads to be called intolerant or bullying and my favorite... That you are somehow censoring someone. We exist in a world where asking someone for basic human decency is a bad thing.

I'm not leaving. This is more an explanation as to why I've been lukewarm at best when I am around. I no longer have anywhere I call my online home. How times have changed.

Comments

[crystalgee.livejournal.com]

I miss you and I understand about online attitudes sometimes.

[firsttiger.livejournal.com]

You, Sharky and another person or two.:)

None of this guts me or anything. Just makes me less inclined to want to play.

[sharkbait.livejournal.com]

I definitely would, it just might take me longer than it used to before I found you missing, which sucks. I don't even have a good excuse, I'm just lazy. :/