It's probably not a good thing when you manage to be socially inept on the INTERNET.

[makeste]

And by 'you' I mean 'I'. XD

1. This is late, but Happy Birthday to engrave and rikasaurus! ♥

2. And, welcome to theprerogative and vazavati! Great to meet you guys. :)

3. Okay. So by this point, I can't really say that I'm new to Livejournal, but. Occasionally situations still crop up where I find myself wondering what the proper etiquette (I guess?) is around these parts. FOR EXAMPLE: Friend memes! Now, if you post on a friending meme, and someone replies to your post but doesn't explicitly say they want to be friends, do you wait until they do? Or is it just assumed that, seeing as it is a FRIENDING MEME, that their responding to your post means they want to add you? I always wait until people ask, just to play it safe, and in all likelihood I will continue to do so! But all the same, I'm curious.

And... I actually had more questions along a similar vein, but then the Dominos guy came, and I went to get the door (it's Dominos!!) and got PIZZA, and by the time I came back to finish this I had forgotten what I was going to say. So I guess I'll just stick with the one question for now.

Nick Carr was on the Colbert Report the other night and he said something about how the Internet has kind of fucked up people's attention spans. Can't say if that's true or not, but I know I'm sure as hell pretty absent-minded tonight. XD

Comments

[theprerogative.livejournal.com]

I'm not sorry that I'm a stalker.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Pssh, we all know the Internet was made for stalking anyway. XD

[vazavati.livejournal.com]

I want pizza. :( If only I had better stalking skills I'd stalk you to your house and steal your pizza. Alas, I'm an amateur. Angst angst angst.

Thank you for your kind welcome. ♥~ I've never done a friending meme, so I can't speak as to their Native Customs. Play it by ear, I s'pose.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

If I had psychic Internet powers I'd send you some pizza via this comment. I'M SORRY. :(

♥ And I've done a few, but yeah, "play it by ear" seems to be the strategy I ought to stick to.

[nuclearpez.livejournal.com]

I usually wait till people ask but sometimes I'll go ahead and ask them if we seem to be getting along. Generally an okay also works if someone friends you after talking to you or something. Usually someone goes, 'can i add you?' and i respond with 'sure!' but that seems to be the way it always is.

I guess if I contact them its my responsibility to ask but if they contact me it's theirs.


Also... random moment but Domino's pizza always manages to make my tummy hurt @__@

[makeste.livejournal.com]

So waiting until being asked seems to be the norm, then. Heh, all right, I'll stick to that. I just get unsure sometimes because usually I'm cool with anyone friending me whenever, so I wonder if I'm being needlessly uptight. XD

Yeah, that makes sense.

Ouch. That generally doesn't happen to me with pizza, but it never fails whenever I eat Chinese. XD

[nuclearpez.livejournal.com]

I think it's mostly chain food that gets me and all of a sudden dumplings. But yeah like idk it feels like Dominos has the same affect on me as what people consider the affect of Hot Pockets or like a Baconaitor. Something of the affect. I swear I miss pizza... I haven't had it in like... wow jeez almost a year @_@ Thats it I'm going down the street tomorrow and picking up some pizza.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Most fast food doesn't affect me, but like I said, Chinese food will generally do a number. (sob sob but it's so delicious. D:) IT'S LIKE A BIANCHI SIGHTING. Dooooooown for the count.

Ahh what IF IT REALLY UPSETS YOUR STOMACH BADLY BE CAREFUL. D: Well, if you're gonna go give it a shot, make sure it's good pizza and not just Dominos at least. XD (Not that I dislike Dominos or anything, but if it's been a year since you've had pizza you might as well go for something really good, right?)

[ex-methane595.livejournal.com]

Thank you bb! ♥~

[makeste.livejournal.com]

♥ Hope you had a good day!

[rikasaurus.livejournal.com]

Thanks :D

And I have to agree with Nick Carr because I know my attention span is way lower than it was back then XD

[makeste.livejournal.com]

♥

Yeah, I think mine's gone down a ways too. XD

[cleartempest.livejournal.com]

Uh, haha XD I also thought it was pretty sad, that I was socially inept on the internet, when I thought about this. But I just think that 'okay, since this is a friending meme, people would be glad to be mutually added after you've talked to them.' It's how I feel anyways.