Paring down my Friends list

[spedbug]

Can I be honest? I have seventy-seven people on my friends list and it's partially due to this that I spend less time on LJ. I realize I'm under no obligation to post in everyone's journal yet I feel I should and will actually avoid reading journals if I feel I can't reply. This sucks. I worry that I already show partiality to certain people's journals while ignoring others and hate to think I'd inadvertanly hurt someone's feelings, in the end.

I went and looked at my Friends list, today, in hopes of finding a good ten people on there I could cut without hurting myself or them in the process and it was fruitless. Nearly every single person on my Friends list is someone I adore interacting with (even if it's only once in a while).

*sigh*

I love you guys and can't bear to part with any of you. :(

Comments

[drutt.livejournal.com]

Like others have said already, it's perfectly okay to skim or skip. And it's definitely okay not to comment. If anyone feels slighted because you're overfriended then they're perfectly free to defriend you (yikes, that sounds painful).

All the same, it'd be great if you didn't cull your list, 'cause your posts make me giggle and I love to read them.

[spedbug.livejournal.com]

I can't cull. I'm cull-challenged.

De-friending does sound a bit painful, doesn't it (and, oddly enough, reminds me of deveining shrimp) and not something in which one would take any pleasure*.

*Does anyone else's inner voice read very proper grammar in a British accent?

[buffra.livejournal.com]

I think it's the "in which one would..." bit that makes it come out British!

[drutt.livejournal.com]

I'd agree with that. I also tend to find that sentences which contain "whom" tend to sound like the Queen's speech in my head.