Complaint

[poliphilo]

I've been on a drive to add more friends.

Here's a complaint: Too many American kiddies seem to think it's witty/ironic/Pythonesque to pretend they're blogging from some foreign country. I think, au contraire, that it's silly/disrespectful/patronising. And it makes a nonsense of LJ's grouping of bloggers by region. If I want to find a friend in Bangladesh I don't want to have to wade through half a dozen American high school teenies first. Listen up, guys- overseas isn't intrinsically funny and what you're doing is a dilute form of cultural imperialism.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I've acquired most of my LiveJournal friends from my friends' friends list. Either that or I knew them from elsewhere first. (Mostly the Usenet group rec.arts.sf.composition)

I have never had any luck looking under interests or regions.

And I must admit that I mostly write extraordinarily dull stuff about me. *g* But to be honest that's what I like in other people's journals. There are plenty of professional journalists writing about current affairs far better than most bloggers.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But you can't talk back at professional journalists.:)