Meme Infection
Jun. 15th, 2005 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupLately there was a meme going around where you asked folks why they had friended you. Even I got into that one, something I seldom do.
One thing I didn't do was answer many questions about why I had friended the folks on my list. I realized a couple of days ago that I was obscurely embarrassed by one of my various reasons. You see, some folks are on my friends list because I want to be infected with some of their memes.
I am someone who always finds myself tending to behave in a manner similar to my friends. Thus, I find it advantageous to have friends with traits that I admire, but which I tend to lack. Among those traits are: An eagerness to write, a gregarious nature, a forthright attitude, an ability to readily trust another person, and so on.
In retrospect, I suppose its no insult to say that someone is on my friends list because they have qualities I admire. On the other hand, it somehow feels like I'm just using them to better myself. I dunno.
There is also the fact that some of these folks were added because they had traits I admire, but I've come to like them for a whole host of reasons.
So, I have to ask: If you found out you were on my friends list, just because I wanted to be more like you, would you feel insulted?
One thing I didn't do was answer many questions about why I had friended the folks on my list. I realized a couple of days ago that I was obscurely embarrassed by one of my various reasons. You see, some folks are on my friends list because I want to be infected with some of their memes.
I am someone who always finds myself tending to behave in a manner similar to my friends. Thus, I find it advantageous to have friends with traits that I admire, but which I tend to lack. Among those traits are: An eagerness to write, a gregarious nature, a forthright attitude, an ability to readily trust another person, and so on.
In retrospect, I suppose its no insult to say that someone is on my friends list because they have qualities I admire. On the other hand, it somehow feels like I'm just using them to better myself. I dunno.
There is also the fact that some of these folks were added because they had traits I admire, but I've come to like them for a whole host of reasons.
So, I have to ask: If you found out you were on my friends list, just because I wanted to be more like you, would you feel insulted?
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Date: 2005-06-15 05:49 pm (UTC)