Signal Boost: Dreamwidth Friending Meme

[jjhunter]

jjhunter: Dreamwidth Friending Meme

It's been a long time since I've seen one of these around. If you're looking to add more mutual subscriptions to your circle, here is a space to advertise and connect.

Comments

[ngakmafaery]

...I followed through on both of them (joined that community and also reposted it on your page, thanks)...and maybe it's an age thing, but I am happy to fill out the information, but then I feel uncomfortable just 'friending' people, although many of the folks look interesting to me...it's something about 'in the old days', you didn't just do it without asking since it's rude...maybe these days I'll just ask people if they want to 'friend' me...

less an age thing, I think, and more an 'LJ vs DW' thing

[jjhunter]

If it helps, I find that people tend to be very casual about subscribing on Dreamwidth because it isn't the same as giving access to locked entries or expecting reciprocal access. Or as they put it in the official FAQ here, if you're coming from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth: Terminology: Subscribe/Access.

(In poetic language, the progression tends to go like this.)

[jjhunter]

maybe these days I'll just ask people if they want to 'friend' me...

On a friending meme, I think it's very much okay to respond to someone's comment with something like 'Hey! You sound interesting, we share x/y/z interests, I'm subscribing' and expect a high likelihood that they will respond with something along the lines of 'Thank you! You sound interesting too, I'm subscribing back'.

n.b. as a stylistic note, you might want to consider editing your comment over at the meme to add the <strong> tags back in - they get stripped out if you do a straight copy & paste with no editing.