168 -> 128
I'm finally doing something I should've done a long time ago, and about a thousand times over. I'm having a proper friendslist cull. I'm starting to realise that I'm being too diplomatic in who I add and who I keep on, and it's boring now. Keeping people on my friendslist because I don't want to reduce my numbers by having them take me off is, quite frankly, silly.

I'm removing people for the following reasons:

1. You've annoyed me somehow, and I can't bring myself to discuss it with you, and I don't think there's enough of a friendship between us to make the effort.
2. You're nice in person, but your journal bores the shit out of me.
3. I like you, but you never post or comment, or you do so incredibly seldom, and when you do, it's nothing I find interesting.
4. You don't connect with me, and I don't know you very well.
5. I plain don't like you, but don't want it to look that way.
6. I want to stop using livejournal as an easy way to communicate with you when I think I should get to know you better in person.
7. I only want to be friends with you for ego reasons, rather than because we actually have anything in common, and I don't actually read your journal.
8. You only want to be friends with me for ego reasons, etc, etc (see point 7).
9. I feel uncomfortable reading about your life, when I get the impression you're keeping me on your list for the same reasons as mentioned in my initial paragraph.
10. I think you only read my journal so you've got something extra to gossip about.

Doesn't necessarily mean I don't like you (although in some cases, it does). Doesn't mean I won't read your journal. And for the eternally paranoid, just because you're still on my list, doesn't mean you don't fall into one of the above categories... just means I have more reasons to keep you on :)