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[dream_labyrinth]

OK guys, I absolutely hate weekends. Why? Because of you!
Nobody's around on weekends. No, that's not true. wolflady26 and correspondguy have been here, and gave me something to read and write comments and even answered to my comments, but that was it.
Now if I'm not at the computer for something like 8 hours, I want to come back to find my mailbox swamped with "reply to your comment" and "reply to your post" emails.And what happens? I logged on yesterday night and had no emails at all. Not even a teensy-weensy one. None.
I'm getting depressed here.
Now if I write something and you have anything to say to that, no matter what it is, please, say it. Give me the impression that I'm not simply addicted to my email account and LJ, but go there for a reason.

Comments

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I think I might have sounded more negative than I meant.

I have a fairly large number of people reading me, so there aren't all that many posts where noone says anything at all. If I get no comments, I kind of get that "Hello, is this mike on?" feeling.

I don't feel bad, or any resentment, if any particular person doesn't post, and I surely don't comment on every one of my friends' posts (I would never be able to do anything else if I tried that!). But I do feel happy when I get a comment, because that means that there is some interaction going on.

The people on LJ that I feel closest to are the ones that I chat with through comments, both on my LJ and on theirs. Not necessarily every post, not necessarily every day even, but occasionally.

To be specific, I don't have a feeling that you and I don't interact. I mean, here we are right now :D And we've chatted about other things in the past as well, and I'm quite happy with that.

There are a couple of people that I don't feel particularly close to. When I read their writings, I'm not motivated to comment, and rarely get a comment from them.

I do use my journal differently from most other writers, in that I don't have any real life friends on my flist. I read only one person that I've ever _met_ in RL, and that was an old friend that I hadn't spoken to for years before finding on LJ. So the vast majority of my communication is through comments.

I'm rambling. I'm going to stop. Simple summary: I like getting comments, but don't feel like LJ has no meaning if I don't, and would hate the thought that anyone would feel pressured to leave comments if they're not motivated to by what I write. :)

[agrathea.livejournal.com]

Hahah! Thanks for clarifying. I'm glad to know you wouldn't have taken offense to my silent spells. It is kind of good to know different people's feelings on posting, it kind of gives me pause to think about how I feel about it, as well.

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

I actually get the feeling that something good came from my whiny little post. That's great. We need to know how differently we feel about these things to make sure we're not offended when no offense is intended.

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

I agree with what you say in your summary. I, too, have no real life friends on my LJ friends list. I know one RL friend who reads my posts, but all others I can only get in contact with through LJ. So reading their posts and getting comments from them is the subsitute for regular communication with them.