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

[merricat.livejournal.com]

I think that's completely reasonable. I mean, I blog about my personal life to a certain extent, but sweet fancy Moses, no one should be expected to put up with that kind of blather. That person needs professional help, not an audience on lj.

And weirdly enough, I very recently read an article (http://jezebel.com/5125522/tell-me-more-why-do-we-overshare) about over-sharing. Hm. Epidemic?

(Also, this is the first time I've been able to actually use this icon. I am stupidly overjoyed.)

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

That's a good article. I wonder if there's a tendency nowadays for people to accelerate into presumed intimacy far quicker, rather than let friendships grow and develop? Things people might only have talked about with long-established friends now get fast-forwarded to first meetings.