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grammargirlI spent far more time than I'd like to admit yesterday reading ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rollick's 'Whose LJs should I avoid' thread. So much hate and vitriol and rampant drama couldn't help but draw a crowd, and despite not actually having jumped on the bandwagon and posted (certainly there are a lot of people whose LJs I glanced through once, decided I didn't like, and promptly forgot about, and a few more that were on my friends list for a while but turned out to be, for one reason or another, not my cup of tea, but I've never come across a journal I dislike enough to deride in a public forum), the sheer amount of time I spent reading through that thread makes me feel kind of slimy by association. Imagining for a moment that rollick's post generated a physical mob scene, I wouldn't have been screaming obscenities or tipping over cars or starting fires or anything, but I would have been standing off to the side somewhere, getting a visceral thrill from the whole thing. Somehow that makes me feel like less of a good person than I'd like to believe I am.
So anyway, I suppose that as far as sordid confessions go, my prurient interest in LJ drama is pretty tame. What can I say, I'm just that boring.
rollick's 'Whose LJs should I avoid' thread. So much hate and vitriol and rampant drama couldn't help but draw a crowd, and despite not actually having jumped on the bandwagon and posted (certainly there are a lot of people whose LJs I glanced through once, decided I didn't like, and promptly forgot about, and a few more that were on my friends list for a while but turned out to be, for one reason or another, not my cup of tea, but I've never come across a journal I dislike enough to deride in a public forum), the sheer amount of time I spent reading through that thread makes me feel kind of slimy by association. Imagining for a moment that rollick's post generated a physical mob scene, I wouldn't have been screaming obscenities or tipping over cars or starting fires or anything, but I would have been standing off to the side somewhere, getting a visceral thrill from the whole thing. Somehow that makes me feel like less of a good person than I'd like to believe I am.So anyway, I suppose that as far as sordid confessions go, my prurient interest in LJ drama is pretty tame. What can I say, I'm just that boring.
