Since last night, I’ve been in a state of digital withdrawal, as far as LJ is concerned.

No more community whoring, no more RSS subscriptions, no, none of that, people. Its all meaningless bullshit to worry over in order to make myself feel good for just five short-lived seconds of semi-bliss.

Physically speaking, except for a few instances, it hasn’t benefitted me shit for any of this time, for any of the last 20 months or so on LJ.

I understand now that LJ is a place to which people come to live, die, and maybe engage themselves in the fiercest, funniest drama with others, only to forget about each other some 3-6 months afterward.

If someone who you friend friends you back, its either because of some coincedence that binds you two together, their tendency to friend unthreatening potentials back, you’ve contacted them on Yahoo, Google, or AIM, or something positive came out of that drama thread that you too fought in.

Otherwise, they’ll probably look at you as an enigma, and you at them in a similar manner.

So, there is no point to this. LJ, ultimately, makes for a poor means of social networking (which I can do at Myspace or Orkut, except that Myspace is shitty-shitty-shitty, and Orkut….well, its full of Brazilians, which isn’t a problem except for the apparent language barrier), but a good means of combining basic blogging with the most-basic social connections.

Therefore, as you may have noticed, I’ve slashed the friends list by a good bit, I’ve deleted the entire userbio, I’ve deleted the subscriptions to all RSS feeds save for 2 (since I already know them from times past), and I’ve cut down my community memberships by 4/5th (and counting downward…).

I’ve also undefaulted my userpic, since I now know that its not representative of me (and never has been).

Other changes will come (not like you’re going to notice, but hey, WTF, mate?) if it seems like something is in excess of any kind.

More in another post, peace out.