it's all in the perspective

[tielan]

Social media - including blogs and journalling services like DW and LJ - are kind of creepy sometimes. I mean, where else could you have 100 or 800 or a 1000 people following you around, not saying anything to you...just watching...

I know, I've been online in journalling services like this for, oh, 16+ years, and I only just thought of it like that.

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[alexseanchai]

...

...we do say things though?

...but yes. :(

[tielan]

We don't really think about it. Until we do. And then...

[monanotlisa]

It's a little weird...though less so on different types of media: If Billy Bob Thornton followed me on Twitter, I'll probably not care much; it's a public platform blaring into the void, and nothing I put on it I wouldn't want on the cover of the NYT. I don't tend to even check my followers on Twitter, except for whether it's a person or a pornbot (in the first case: check out whether to friend; in the second case: block).

Here on Dreamwidth, if someone followed me for years without commenting, it'd feel different: more personal, private -- even in the public posts.

[tielan]

I'm pretty sure I have people who've followed me here on DW and over on LJ without ever commenting. And yes, it's a little daunting, because...who are these people? Why do they never speak?

(Then again, I am a person who likes interacting with people online, and who has had to haul her foot out of her mouth so many times and get over the embarrassment and anxiety to keep going, that it doesn't worry me too much anymore. I have a bad night or two, and then I go back in.)

[monanotlisa]

Then again, I am a person who likes interacting with people online

Me too! That's really why I'm here, y'all. I wuv people I follow, or some genuine aspect of them. :)

[beatrice_otter]

did you have to say that.

really.

did you?

[tielan]

#sorrynotsorry