Live Journal insecurity
Cara wrote: 1) i get shockingly jealous when i see the number of comments on other people's journals. i defensively think “what's wrong with MY journal?”
I was going to mention something about this earlier but I thought it was just some creepy personality quirk of mine. Now I see that I'm not alone. For me it's not so much the lack of comments. But it's happened several times now that I've “met” someone through one of the communities that I'm in. They seem cool, so I ask politely if they would mind if I befriended them. I figure that it's rude not to ask, just subscribe myself to their journal and they don't even know me. The troubling part is when they just don't answer me. I think, “Oh no. I've frightened her. She thinks I'm stalking her. Perhaps I was too gushy in my request. She's going to report me to LJ. My journal's not cool enough to be associated with.” This happened twice quite recently. I really don't know what's wrong with me or why Live Journalists seem to be so creeped out by me.
