Vaguely amused and annoyed at the same time

[silverthorne]

...So who else finds having a person suddenly and randomly adding you to their flist using some sort of search script program annoying? Especially when from what you can tell, you and they have nothing in common?

Someone friended my main RP LJ yesterday doing that. It's the third time within a month that's happened, too. Which is why I'm asking. Whatever happened to actually talking to people and finding out what they're like?

Comments

[del-the-psycho.livejournal.com]

It's only bad when the person's clearly a serial adder and just wants a big f-list so they look popular.

And now I'm curious; who was the user who added ya?

[chiss.livejournal.com]

Same person added me, actually, too. I fucking hate that.

[nnylrac.livejournal.com]

Hope you don't mind the way I added you. I didn't do THAT but I did base it on common interests and the look of your journal, without conversing with you first. I'm a bit shy of jumping into conversations I haven't been invited to, otherwise I would have talked to you first.

[janewt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those things kind of bug me too. I mean, I don't especially care that some random Russian person has one of my RP accounts friended, but...um......why? I mean, I really doubt she's putting Tetu's rambling entries into a translator, you know?

[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

When I first moved to Albany, I used LJ's 'find users by location' function to troll for other LJ users in Albany. I looked for people with at least five interests in common with mine, and added about ten or twelve, just so I could watch their posts, and see if they were the sort of people I'd like to get to know.

Several of them are still my friends now -- Chaoticerotic, Botia, and Dodging Fate, amoungst them.

But if they've no interests in common, I can't see why they'd just be adding you. I mean, unless they like the artwork?

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

Hips was friended AGES ago by an RD fan I've seen floating around on LJ. I...don't think she got it was RP. Since a lot of Hip's interests are RD related, I think she just went OH ANOTHER FAN and friended her.

At least you're not getting BananaHoedown AIM messages?