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[gerbie]

I encounter more and more LJ's that are completely 'friends only' . It is a shame that it is necessary. It defeats the purpose in my opinion. How can you decide wether or not someone could be an LJ-friend, if you can't even get to know them.

Which is as absurd as the "add me and I will add you back" rule plenty of people seem to use. I decide who is on my friends list based on my interest in a particular LJ, not because someone adds me. This does not automatically say something about wether I like the person or not.

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[lorelei-aisling.livejournal.com]

He is very toxic and even though he can't comment becuase I banned him, he'll send his fucking friends in to befriend me. So now I will not even consider adding somebody on my friends list that comes from Buffalo New York. I did that with this one guy and he just totally attacked me and acted like a complete and total fuckwad.

Maybe I should go back to my "I refuse to date anybody with an American citizinship" mode.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there are plenty of decent Americans. Probably even more than in most other countries. Now, percentagewise it might be bad, but in between all those millions, there might be a few good ones. Not all of them were born and bred there, are they?