My new social experiment continues...

I have gotten several emails going... "How do I know you?"

I guess there is this unspoken LJ etiquette that says you should ask someone before you friend them... Well folks, here is the scoop, um... no, not gonna happen.

LJ is public social media. You don't have to friend anyone back that friends you. After all, by friending you, I am giving you access to my "friends only posts" (which, btw, there have been less than a couple of dozen over the course of eight years on LJ). I am not demanding that you friend me back, meet me, fall in love with me or anything of the sort. I just want to broaden my horizons, absorb more perspectives, and yes, make some new friends.

Of course, this is one of the reasons I have always disliked the term "friends list" - to me, it is a compilation of writing from multiple sources. People may or may not be "friends" in the traditional sense of the word. Until I started my little experiment, I had met almost everyone on my LJ, even those I met through LJ as far away as Las Vegas (waves at lordremo).

I'm trying to expand my perspectives. I love reading LJ, I love the creativity, the passion, the fervor with which many people write. I admit it, I'm a literary voyeur. I love to have my thoughts provoked and my mind expanded.

I would hope that you add me to your "people whose journals I read" list. Yes, I have a filter named exactly like that, so that I can keep track of them. But you might or might not get on one of the other filters that are used to limit content to those who wish to receive it (such as my BDSM filter, or my book filter, or weight loss filter, etc).

I may not know you, but I hope that by reading your journal, I will get to know you soon.

Ciao for now.