okay. i've started the really really wacky task of undergoing a mass defriending. I've gone back through the past couple of months and unlocked all the fandom-exclusive posts and make a concentrated effort in future to keep the personal and fandom stuff separate so i don't just end up locking everything. if people want me to go back further and unlock more fandom posts, that can be done.

people who end up defriended, PLEASE DON'T BE OFFENDED. it's nothing personal, but i just feel really uncomfortable and a mite deceptive when i have so many people who i really don't know (or know *at all*) listed as friend. there are also fandoms i have moved out of and thus most of the time it's not liek, applicable to have the same people friended, as odd as that sounds... but you know what i mean. the same reason i expect people have me friended for fandom-only purposes, i have other people friended for fandom-only purposes. fandoms which i am no longer in.

BUT ANYWAY. i have no problems with people reading my lj, but i keep the personal ones locked for personal safety reasons.

anyway. omg! this is too weird.

okay. i started off with 398 people friended. i'm now down to 168.

no hard feelings for the people i lost - i just really felt the urge to pare back quite harshly, i was really feeling awkward and uncomfortable and not liking being ruled so much by something as stupid and simple as a flist. i have no objections at all to people still having me friended if they want to keep up with my antics.

bye!