ME: One of the folks I know is dating one of my exes! And she unfriended me on LJ!
J: Well, yanno, that’s what happens when you start dating someone. You have to unfriend all their exes on the LJ, honey. It's, like, a rule or something.
ME: But!
J: It's a RULE.
ME: But!!!
J: When was the last time you talked to this person?
ME: Well… um. I haven’t been going to cons, really, which is where everyone is… and, um, OK, I don’t comment much on the blogs anymore, and um…. I sort of dropped off the face of the writing earth last year. But!! I do LIKE her!! Now she will NEVER TALK TO ME AGAIN.
J: I think you will be OK.
ME: So I guess I shouldn’t friend her on Facebook?
J: Probably not.
This is the trouble with web 2.0. Sometimes it makes you feel just like you did in high school, and the feelings are just as ridiculously irrational.
Particularly because I’m terribly happy for both of them.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Irrational Politics of Web 2.0
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2 comments so far. What are your thoughts?
I think it'd be okay to drop her a line and say, "How's tricks?" if you wanted to.
(I don't think you have to, and I have no idea how she'd respond if you did, etc., etc., etc. But y'know. I think you're allowed.)
Ha! That would be highly out of character. Since when have I dropped ya'll notes saying "how's tricks?" I'm quite content to keep up with folks via ye olde bloggs.
I'm just happy they're happy!
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