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

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I always thought, and still think, that LJ is a more "personal" social network, a place where it's harder to find wrong things and easier to find real friends. I hope to be able to continue to think that. Elisa

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

Elisa, I have found LJ to be a place of deep friendships. I have extremely close friends and I have met them occasionally in RL. They are directly responsible for supporting me to my dream of publication--so how empowering is that? And I work to do the same for two other talented friends.

I guess like the rose, there is no flower without the petals and the thorns.

I don't like twitter or blogs particularly. This is where I'd like to be.

I had a strange dream this morning that I went to Italy and met my Italian friends. I hope one day that happens and I get to meet you since I love that country.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I would love to let you see my country through my eyes, I always like when I have the chance to do that when I'm abroad. Elisa