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Dec. 7th, 2014 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogNot that it happens often, but I'm going to begin to let people know the reason I unfriend/unfollow them in social media when I do so, if it's about something other than personal disagreement. If someone's position on issue(s) makes me too upset to engage in rational discussion about it, I can at least not take part in making making my position invisible by saying nothing.
At the same time, I think a private message is sufficient. Part of what's made me do these things silently in the past is thinking of newsgroups (yes, newsgroups; kids, ask your parents) where people left in a giant public huff of drama. That's really uncool. It's performative, not communicative. Deities know, we could use some more communication down here, which why I feel a little bad about withdrawing in the first place. But sometimes I just can't deal.
At the same time, I think a private message is sufficient. Part of what's made me do these things silently in the past is thinking of newsgroups (yes, newsgroups; kids, ask your parents) where people left in a giant public huff of drama. That's really uncool. It's performative, not communicative. Deities know, we could use some more communication down here, which why I feel a little bad about withdrawing in the first place. But sometimes I just can't deal.
