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Cyril
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Sep 30, 2008 06:47PM
Half my goodreads friends dropped me. Sheila Olson, who was one of my two friends let me go. I would not normally post this except that it appears she has disappeared off of GR altogether. Anyone know what happened to her? I will miss her.
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Oh crap, yeah she's gone!*worried*
And someone else dropped me too. Haven't figured out who yet.
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Well, at least I know who dropped me this time, and they didn't just drop me. They dropped everybody.Alas, indeed.
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Huh. I'm hoping with both of them it's a GR snafu, and they'll come back.
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Heh, that's possible with David!But Sheila? No way. And she just came back from vacation.
A friend of mine had her profile accidentally deleted by GR, but she came back the next day.
Gr can delete your profile--read the terms of policy. They blacked out David's picture several times. i so miss him. now i know why my friend number dropped by two now--sheila also. WOW. Has me thinking too. backed up my reviews and writing tonight.
Donald, did David say why? Could it be the current situation in mini am?god, I hope it was a mistake with Sheila. I was so looking forward to having her back after her vacation. If she is gone, and any of you know her contact info, I'd really love it.
That's weird. Another of my friends has left GR. Is the Rapture upon us?
No. She posted maybe once or twice over in True North, but that was it. I don't think she was in AM or MA.
So you've just lost 3, in your battle for 100, all in one day!
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Wow, it's surprising. And a bummer. I hate when that happens. :(
When you left Gr, Sherri, did you delete your profile?There are times when I take a day or two off from GR and feel genuinely better. Last spring I was arriving at work and spending an hour in the office answering messages, etc...it was totally fucking me up. I've tried to pull back some since then.
Yeah, I think you have a point, Sherri...as I have said in other situations I get bothered when people threaten to leave as if they're waiting for someone to say "Please, don't leave!" I don't have time for that crap and I don't respect people who play those games.However, I don't think either David or Sheila fall into that category by a long shot. I don't think groups/profiles are supposed to be permanent and consistent...online presences evolve like anything else. There are some boards (e.g. esp. related to music) on which I used to be very active but I hardly post tbere anymore. Like Sherri says, they just didn't fulfill my needs anymore...that's not a criticism of the boards, it was just time for me to leave the party.
Yeah, I hear you, Donald...One thing that surprises me is how personally both others and myself can take things that emerge on GR. I'm working to get past that.
I also left miniam because I didn't feel as if the board was still collaborative and the "going private" mandate didn't fit why I signed up for the board in the first place. Leaving miniam feels right...like a load off my back. I hope miniam does well in the future, but it's no longer a party I'm attending, at least for now.
Time works strangely on GR. A day on GR feels like a long time...like what we talked about in the spring feels like months ago...I try to keep that in mind when conflict emerges...it'll all be fine in a couple days, and things would get boring around here if we never conflicted.
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The most ironic thing about GR for me is that it is taking time away from reading books.
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I agree, Bunny. Eating is also a highly overrated act, I'm finding...
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I used to check Goodreads in my dreams.
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i hate it when I'm checking GR in my dreams. I can't read in my dreams, so it ends up being a frustrating, never ending cycle of clicking and checking a different thread, clicking and checking a different group. yuck
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Says the guy that lives on good reads.
