Note to flist: personal issues

[transemacabre]

I have just defriended a person that was on my flist for reasons that I would like to discuss more fully with all of you. This person, whom I friended because we had fannish interests in common, posted about their self-injury. This sort of thing has reached the breaking point with me. I am here for fannish enjoyment. I am not your counselor, I am not responsible for your well-being, and I am not going to sit here and have to look at post after post about y'all cutting, starving, drugging, or otherwise harming yourselves.

If you wish to post about such things, then you are welcome to do so in your own lj which is defriended from mine. I am tired of this drama and I simply am not going to put up with it anymore. I have personal problems of my own but I do not post them here for the public or my friends to see. If I have to be a bitch to protect myself from the pain you are causing yourself and others, then so be it. This lj is a very special happy space for me; this is where I go to play and relax and laugh. Do not take a dump in my goddamned sandbox.

Comments

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what it is about blogging, but it does seem to encourage an alarming degree of exhibitionism in some people, emotionally, and also physically (people posting naked pics of themselves, & c.) The notion of privacy and private life – that some things are not for sharing – seems to have disappeared in some sectors.

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of it is exhibitionism and attention-whoring, and some of it's just plain thoughtlessness. I mean, counselors get paid to listen to them talk about their crappy lives, we don't. There is a time and a place for personal issues, and my lj friends page isn't it.

[redcandle17.livejournal.com]

I can understand posting personal stuff on a "friends only" filter, but I'm amazed at the things I come across in public posts when I'm just randomly browsing the Internet(like yesterday, when I encountered a post by someone who felt the need to let the world know she spent the weekend fucking her boyfriend). As mississippienne said, a lot of it is attention-whoring. But I also think it's an attempt by some people to appear "cool" or "edgy."

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I don't understand this contemporary use of "edgy". I grew up understanding it to mean "nervous", as in "on edge".