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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.
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I got caught up in it too
Date: 2004-02-08 02:34 pm (UTC)I felt bad for the people whose journals were getting torn apart and wondered if they knew they were the objects of such scrutiny....or perhaps were enjoying the attention?
Something else you might enjoy, along the same lines, is rockstarbob's confessional (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rockstarbob/156469.html). I found it absolutely riveting.