LJ Friends Lists

[ailbhe]

If I'm on your friends list and you're not on mine, why are you reading me? I'd love to know. If you are, of course; I might be on there for some entirely other reason. I know some people added me so I could read individual posts linked from other people's journals, and stuff.

But I am curious.

Comments

[taimatsu]

I read you because I find you interesting. Your writing about your life is interesting anyway because it's different from mine, but the principles and passion you weave into it make it doubly so. And you happen to live not far from me, too - I find it even more interesting when someone's completely different life is happening in the same place as mine.

I sometimes feel diffident about commenting on your journal because you don't have me friended or know me, but I sort of think if you objected to my commenting or reading you would probably not be shy of saying so.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

When I got the LJ, I went through and added all the alt.poly people I could find.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Your journal is interesting. I like hearing about how you solve problems bringing up your children and stay strong through tough times. I find your opinions on a lot of things resonate with a lot of the things I think about, like how little girls' clothes are rubbish and little boys' clothes are made to last, when I find similar things as I learn to make clothes myself.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Also I sometimes drop into lnc and read the poems you write, because they're excellent.

[laura0141.livejournal.com]

Curiosity is good :)

We met on UKFlyLadyChat before Linnea was born. My lifestyle is very different to yours and I guess I'm curious so I keep reading. I also really admire you for living out your values and for some of the problems you've had to overcome.

I hope you're happy for me to keep reading?

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

I know you from AFP, and it didn't occur to me that you might not know or remember me.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

You write interesting, passionate, though provoking posts, and your poetry resonates with me in a way that poetry usually doesn't. If it bothers you, I can leave.

[jexia]

I've seen you around a lot in parenting communities and TLL. micheinnz suggested I friend you because I'm dealing with some birth injury issues.

[myfirstkitchen.livejournal.com]

I find your posts in TLL really interesting and thought provoking and they challenge the way I think about things in a way that nobody else currently does. I also like reading about your children.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

I know you from elsewhere, so it was a qualified guess I would enjoy reading your LJ. You write things that make me think.

(you've since added me to your flist, but my original reason for adding you is still valid; I would still read you if you hadn't)

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

I honestly cant remember! I think I saw a comment you posted somewhere and went "Oh she sounds interesting!"
I love reading about your life - its so real.

[cassandre.livejournal.com]

I enjoy your anecdotes about / views on parenting, women, childbirth, feminism, education, green living, and I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff I've missed. Also, you live close by me geographically. Also, the poems.

[jemstone.livejournal.com]

You're on sinboy and rosefox's friends lists. I've seen you speak on both their journals, and liked what you had to say. I added you to (and kept you on) my list because I still like what you have to say and how you say it.

[treadpath.livejournal.com]

I think I found you originally through some parenting communities and liked your comments and posts, so I added you. I continue to enjoy your writing and find your journal interesting, so that's why I've stayed.

[clarahippy.livejournal.com]

I liked your posts on TLL and like to read about how you live your values, which is something I am always striving to do. I doubt I do it as successfully and I certainly wouldn't be able to write about it so engagingly.

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

I like you, and I like reading about the kids.

[tchemgrrl.livejournal.com]

I found your journal somehow-or-other at a point when I'd started thinking about what our family will look like, if/when we decide to have kids. I love your writing, and you often bring up parenting questions that I'd never thought about, but should (like unschooling, and the work/home balance required when one parent each works outside and inside the home).

So, because I find your thoughts interesting.

I don't really like the emotional loading that LJ puts in by calling reading lists "friends lists", and I can understand why seeing strangers listed as friends can feel awkward. If it makes you uncomfortable I can put your journal into my bookmarks instead.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I saw you around, commenting in other folks' LJs. You made sense. So I came over to check you out, and you're interesting, have interesting kids (only the one, when I first started reading you), dealt and are dealing with pretty significant trauma in ways which are often articulate and illuminating, and you open a window into your life.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Yes, that.

Also, as someone who has no children for political reasons (pretty much) I am interested in how women who make a different choice cope.

[lalajia.livejournal.com]

I think it was Lonecat who mentioned you - I came over to find out who you were, as you sounded intriguing, and I'm fascinated by your strength in family life, so I watch from the sidelines.
Your children are adorable, of course, so I *have* to keep reading to hear about them :)

[rpdom.livejournal.com]

The majority of people on my flist are people I've met IRL (mainly through afp). You fall into that category.

Also, I find many of your posts interesting, and I love reading about your kids antics :)

[pakennedy.livejournal.com]

I started a new account in my real name rather than my old pseudonym...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not on LJ. I first met you in real life and on AFP, and I instantly liked and admired you. I read your journal every day, and continue to like and admire you. And I love your poetry.

Elaine xx

[nwhyte]

You are a very good writer, especially about parenthood. You probably know that two of my children have special needs, so from time to time I find myself wondering what a more 'normal' situation might have been like; not that anybody is normal, of course.

[tafagirl.livejournal.com]

I have no idea when I friended you ... We have lots of friends (and interests!) in common, and I cannot remember whether I friended you after reading comments from you on friends' LJs or on TLL ;-)

Brief info about me: I'm 32, German, married to B, 44, we moved to The Netherlands 1.5 years ago where we just managed to be approved as adoptive parents 7.5 years after we started trying to have children ... We're now signing up with an agency and hope for a referral of 1-2 older children with special needs from sub-Saharan Africa before B's 46th birthday (the legal limit in NL).

My posts are basically all f-locked. Friend me, I'd love to have you reading my entries :-)