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

[red-girl-42.livejournal.com]

Then that's even stupider.

I can see there being something amusing about creating a whole other persona and trying to keep up with it on LJ. But why lie about something if you're not going to go all the way with it?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, these people are indulging in a one-off joke; That's all.

I'm full of admiration for those who use LJ to sustain a proper, fully-rounded, fictional persona.