Another strategy I’m noticing to avoid Friending angst/rudeness – you receive a request from someone you don’t want to Friend, but don’t want to offend. So, you add them with the intention to delete them after a short while, that way they see they’ve been accepted and everyone is happy. Then, after a few weeks […]
Archive | March, 2009
Facebook Angst vs. LiveJournal Drama
academic angst drama facebook livejournal thesisA few years ago Fono and I wrote a paper that was basically about LJ drama, even though we gussied it up with a fancy academic title and invoked Baudrillard. The main thing we found was that people had all these different ideas about what being Friends on LiveJournal meant. The main reasons people Friended […]