“Let me know if you want to be un-banned”

[pne]

I just happened to look at someone’s last journal entry (let’s call them “A”), where they say that they probably won’t be posting to LiveJournal any more.

One person (“B”) said (nearly a year later) that since A’s journal was going to be inactive, B would unfriend them as part of friends list maintenance/cleanup. And that in order to keep their friend-of list tidy, B was going to ban A. (Which would cause A to no longer appear on B’s profile.)

The kicker? B ended their note saying that if A didn’t like that, they could unfriend B and let them know.

Now, once A unfriends B, B’s friends-of list will be tidy so they don’t need the ban to hide A’s name from the list. But what struck me was, how does B expect A to contact them if they banned them?

Comments

[mummimamma]

Telepathy, definitely.
Honestly, people are stupid.

[pauamma]

Magic!

[sophie]

Presumably, once B received the "A unfriended you" notification (which I believe still gets sent regardless of bans), B would unban A.

They might also have email contact.

[snark]

Magic gnomes.

[xaea]

ha ha!

[quinctia]

I suppose they could have an alternate point of contact, but it still seems a bit silly.

[xaea]

THAT is HILARIOUS!!!

[green_knight]

You lost me as 'A never post, so B doesn't want further interactions with them ', because people who don't post might still read LJ entries and comment on them. I'd be extremely wary of anyone who doesn't want to talk to me because I'm not engaging regularly enough with them.

I also thought the friends of friends was 'friends of people I've friended' rather than 'friends of people who friended me', but the purpose is to meet new people you presumably have something in common with. You don't stop being friends with someone just because the person who introduced you faded away.

Shorter comment: WTF?