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what's this? a soap box?
Mar. 6th, 2007 10:44 amMy friends list seem to be dealing with the Honesty Meme today. I was very curious last night and almost threw my hat in the ring too, until I remembered my little theory of LJ.
It is impossible to please everyone, and with an honesty meme? That *one* person who took the honesty meme to mean 'let me find that little tiny petty thing that bugged me about you and tell you that' is going to represent 100s of silent people in your head.
If you tell the world everything, people want you to shut up. If you keep to yourself, people will think you're elitist. If you're talking to friends, that's a clique and if you talk to everyone, that's attention seeking.
It's a lose-lose situation.
Not saying that sometimes the opinions don't matter? If I was a huge-ass bitch, I'd want someone to tell me. But I'd also want them to tell me with their name so I could work it out and not end up a paranoid mess in the corner.
But it's amazing really. When I was writing up my Paranoia meme (which is still coming by the way) the good things I thought about you all far far outweighed the bad things. I can't think of very many bad things I think about any of you at all. I read that Honesty Meme with a face like this -> :o Where I could not believe that people would *care* about half the stuff they were saying.
I'm glad I didn't put my name in now. I think I'm done with memes and spamming now for a while.
*collapses* Okay they don't make soap boxes like they used to. :p
No matter what you do, or how you go about doing it, someone on LJ will not like it.
It is impossible to please everyone, and with an honesty meme? That *one* person who took the honesty meme to mean 'let me find that little tiny petty thing that bugged me about you and tell you that' is going to represent 100s of silent people in your head.
If you tell the world everything, people want you to shut up. If you keep to yourself, people will think you're elitist. If you're talking to friends, that's a clique and if you talk to everyone, that's attention seeking.
It's a lose-lose situation.
Not saying that sometimes the opinions don't matter? If I was a huge-ass bitch, I'd want someone to tell me. But I'd also want them to tell me with their name so I could work it out and not end up a paranoid mess in the corner.
But it's amazing really. When I was writing up my Paranoia meme (which is still coming by the way) the good things I thought about you all far far outweighed the bad things. I can't think of very many bad things I think about any of you at all. I read that Honesty Meme with a face like this -> :o Where I could not believe that people would *care* about half the stuff they were saying.
I'm glad I didn't put my name in now. I think I'm done with memes and spamming now for a while.
*collapses* Okay they don't make soap boxes like they used to. :p
