Some people I friend for 'community' reasons - I like them *g*. Other times they've friended me in the first place and they look basically sane and they do talk to me sometimes.

I have other people I friend on a 'reading list' basis. If they friend me back, cool. If they don't - no skin off my nose. I'll still keep reading them. Otoh, if I get bored or whatever, if they didn't friend me back, then I don't worry so much about defriending/removing from the reading list.

I kind of assume that I'm still on your flist. I'll avoid the insecure nonsense of wandering off to my user page to check...;-)