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Random urge for friends-list cleanup. Nothing personal, anyone.

I used to wonder how people were so immediately aware that other people had unfriended them. Very occasionally (once a month tops) I would check my friend-of list to see if anyone new that I didn't know had found me, not to find out whether people had unfriended me (I figure everyone has their reasons, most likely having to do with whether they find me boring or interesting, so it's no big deal). But until a few months ago I hadn't used the Semagic client, despite the fact that the Visions client hadn't been updated in years. And of course Semagic can give you all the gritty details of who has friended or unfriended you, enabling much drama to take place.

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aww zankyou for keeping me. *HUG*

Well see, I actually, you know, read you. Mostly the ones I unfriended were people I had found a while back in random searches or seen in communities and friended, but whose journals were mostly friends-only and who hadn't friended me back, so all I was seeing was their smattering of public posts and nothing with any more substance to it. A few were ones where I have only been skimming, or duplicate journals of the same person where I think of one as the "main" and the others as jsut auxiliaries.

DRAWMAH!!!!

Where would we be without it?

Oh, so that's how people pick up on it so fast. Like you, I don't even bother to look at who's friended me more than once a month (or more likely three or four months), and wouldn't even notice if someone had unfriended me. I kind of wondered if some of the more drama-prone people actually checked their friend-of lists every day, just to see if they had cause for weeping and wailing.

I check mine daily, but I'm not drama-obsessed. Obsessive, maybe. ;)

(No, I didn't feel accused. Just datapointing.)

Well, there's also Joule. (http://marnanel.org/joule) That gives you a tally of who has friended and unfriended you as well.

Er, what zie said.

This is an easier way: http://marnanel.org/joule?user=saizai&mode=graph

Somehow, mine gets visited every few days; I only look at it once a month or so.

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