A forced farewell

[reviews_and_ramblings]

In this moment I'm wondering if people know how hurt they can do with a simple click. I lost a friend on LJ some days ago, he removed me from his friendlist without a word. As I said in a previous post, I know that my LJ can be "particular" (to be gentle) and so I tried to justify that act. But it still hurt, since I believed we were friend beyond LJ. He has my email, he could say a word before doing something like that, and instead nothing. I didn't write to him since I had done in the past, when I noticed some strange things happening, a "cold" in our emails or comments that I hadn't found before, but he said that no, nothing had changed and I thought maybe it was a language barrier.

When he removed me from his friendlist, I removed him from mine too, it's my rule, but I fed his blog... stupid me, I was thinking to at least leaving a link. Then this night he removed me from another social network, again without a word... and now I hear the message loud and clear. I removed him too, from that social network and also from the feeds of my LJ. I also removed the tag I had of him but I didn't remove the posts.

I have an idea why he did so, and this make me even more sad. I really believed him a friend. I have learned a lesson more tonight.

ETA: I also deleted my account on Twitter, the worst personal experiences I had in these last months are due to that social network. If you were friend of me there, you know where to find me, I didn't friend no one on Twitter that it was not my friend also on LJ.

Comments

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

This happens more often on the Internet, but it goes on in real life sometimes, too. I've walked away from a few ... well, what I thought were friendships, but clearly weren't ... but not if the other person was willing to meet halfway, or even partway. But a clean break's usually better than a flame war.

Look at the number of folks who've defriended you.. and weigh that number against those of us who are still here. {hug}

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

The fact that I can't enjoy how many friends I have now in comparison to loose that one tells you how much it hurts. I'm not for a flame war, no one will or can know who is, if not me and him. I wrote a post some days ago to let him know that I understood (I believed to understand) his act. I'm writing now to let him know that NOW I received the message. It will die here. But for me he was not simple another online friend. Elisa