Yay! This is *so* my tribe.

I couldn't sleep (as usual) last night, so I actually *did* explain my list :-)

I broke down my friend list by category and posted it to the friends thread on TribeIdeas. 37 out of 140-whatever are just "I don't know you but you seem cool" people. But see, that used to be like 50 out of 80, and now a bunch of those have moved into offline-friend or at least sometime-part-of-offline-social-group status. And that's great. Not everyone has or will, but dang, why not say yes? You can always *stop* hanging out with someone, online or off. Not even starting seems so pointless to me.

I did pretty much stop inviting other people to be friends a while back, unless I hung out with them in person or I really really like their profile and posts in the tribes. But I'm a yes-girl too. If you have a profile and we've interacted and I don't think you're a jerk, I'll generally say yes.

Sugar - I am glad you are here cuz I started researching these "Earthships" cuz of you - I hope to visit one of them in the next few months - I live in the Ghetto and I think it might be hard to find one close to civilization butt its a great concept.

My rule of thumb is that I want to have met a person in real life before I'll add them to my friend list and I've only made one or two exceptions. I want to know that you are a real person, what you look like, that you aren't a fed, etc.