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[deckardcanine]

Every so often, I want to remove someone from my Friends list, not out of anger but simply because their entries don't appeal to me much anymore. As yet, however, I have never de-Friended anyone who still had me on their own list. Partly I don't want to risk shrinking my already small readership, but mainly I don't know how to do it without feeling rude. My LJ doesn't bar non-Friends from replying, but an ex-Friend might still discover their removal on their own. Even posting this entry give me a nagging feeling of rudeness, despite not having implicated any particular Friends.

My grasp on face-to-face etiquette is weak enough. Does anyone know a good source for netiquette?

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[publius-aelius.livejournal.com]

You may have noticed that I put a lot of words into full CAPS; I was once told that was "yelling" at people. But I considered that absurd, and continue to capitalize words I feel need emphasis. Of course I know that that's not recommended by modern sylists, who feel that if a word requires emphasis, only the CONTEXT should be helping it to that--and that, if the context isn't doing that for what you feel needs emphasis, then you ought to tweak your diction.

However, I am much influenced by certain more visual pre-19th century cultures, which even strove for a visual impression in print: in the 16th and 17th centuries, many words that we don't capitalize were, and much more was done with the "look" of print on a page than we think is reasonable or necessary.

So, it's my "STYLY' and I reckon I won't change my "STYLE" for the sake of "netiquette."