Does it help that it's fictional?

[redbird]

I just posted an LJ comment in an attempt to cheer up a robot.

Comments

[bibliotrope.livejournal.com]

Well, I just sent "her" a haiku, which I seldom do even for my human friends.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

You and 30-odd more of us.

Sometimes I scare myself.

I still like her better than her sister

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

who gets on my nerves with her bumptiousness.

Re: I still like her better than her sister

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Spiritrover is on my friends list, Opportunitygrrl isn't.

. . .

There's something downright mentally ill about all this, isn't there?

[elynne.livejournal.com]

That's cool and/or disturbing. Probably "and". :D

(Yes, I was very tempted to try to cheer up the robot, too - I just couldn't think of anything cheery to write.)

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

did you see? i bet she's happy now. she found water, too!

[numbat.livejournal.com]

Since I'm not entirely convinced that anybody on LiveJournal exists outside of LiveJournal I see no reason to consider your gesture strange.