People Are Strange

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76. interesting and I like that song

However, I would point out, that it can seem like somebody is "following you around" when they really are not.

Although I was, on DU2 following you and several others around. The buddy list feature would tell me when one of my "buddies" had added something to their journal. I put people on my buddy list, not because we were friends (although I probably tended to like the people on my buddy list, in an unrequited sort of way though and I would say a friendship needs to be mutual) but because, in my estimation, they wrote things that were worth reading.

I sorta take credit, in some ways, for 'discovering' the DUer "Timeforchange". He wrote long essays, so they tended to sink. I first found him on like the second or third page of GD. My KNRs brought him back to the first page, where his essays got more views. As more people read them, he eventually started making the front page with each new post.

Also, about 'being involved in his life'. Well, by sharing your thoughts with US, including HIM, you are involved in our life, to a perhaps minor extent, but even the minor can be major. E-friends seem to me, at least in my bubble, to be as real as any other friends I have.

For example, in two minutes, I am going to church. I generally see the same people every week, a small group, and we know each others' real names, and maybe a few other things about each other. But I only see them once a week, and they obviously do not know as much about what I think as they would if they had read most of my posts on DU.

Heck, they might not even know I have a rather severe borderline personality disorder.

Well, I am an Aspie, I believe, although I do not consider THAT to be a disorder.