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Sunday night
Oct. 6th, 2002 11:25 pmI believe I'll write about journals tonight. You might notice that I have very few people on my friends list. It's not that I'm antisocial... well, actually, I am, but that's not why the list is short. I just have a hard time finding people who are actually interesting enough to read, and when I do, I never get around to actually adding them. I just save the bookmark in a certain folder and go through them when I'm bored. I hate the term "friend". How presumptious is it to call someone a friend when you've only been reading their journal and they have no clue who you are? Should you ask them first, or should you just add them and read their entries whether they want you to or not? Is it better to just read from afar?
Maybe I just worry that this hypothetical prospective friend list addition will find me boring or freakish and won't add me in return. This isn't a problem in that I really don't mind if they don't want to read my entries, but won't it look strange if I have a bunch of Friends: but not Friends Of:? Does it even really matter, and if so, why should it? It would be ever so much more convenient to see all the entries on one page, wouldn't it? Supposedly, the friends part is the magic of LiveJournal, what makes it so interesting. How does one find people worth reading? Interests is a nice idea but utter bollocks, as far as I can tell.
And then there is the Amerikanska group. They make up the largest part of my Journals bookmark folder. I have theorized that this is because they tend to have a stronger reason for posting.. keeping friends/family at home updated. As always, this theory is probably vastly oversimplified and/or not at all true, but almost every single one of them (and the people on their friends list) post valid, entertaining entries. But it's interesting to me personally because we probably won't ever live there (or at least until we retire or something), and I really and honestly wish we could spend a few years there.. until we have kids. (Perhaps I'll write more about that another time. Almost everyone else says that they want to live in the US until it's time for kids and I'm the exact opposite.) Still yet, most of the people I read have lists mainly comprised of other Americans in Sweden and discuss getting together and such. I'm an American in America. One hates to presume, right?
And also, why do people think that the quizzes are interesting enough to fill a journal with? I admit that I've taken a few (though never posted my results) and I don't particularly care if there are a few in a journal, but why would you post those and nothing else? Does anyone get really excited when they see a journal full of "I'm a neurotic viking" or "I'm a kleptomaniac" or whatever? Someone added me as a friend once and I didn't add them in return because they only posted quizzes, bad poetry, and links to things I didn't want to read, and eventually I noticed that I was no longer a friend. I feel vaguely guilty about that.
I've been very heavily online and techie for five or six years. I met my husband on a roleplaying game, yet I've never actually had a conversation in a chat room, believe it or not. Where is the etiquette to all this?
In other news, my husband just ran into the room, threw a balloon at me and ran back into the living room. On the balloon was written "Hi! Love you!" I'm the luckiest girl in the world. :)
Maybe I just worry that this hypothetical prospective friend list addition will find me boring or freakish and won't add me in return. This isn't a problem in that I really don't mind if they don't want to read my entries, but won't it look strange if I have a bunch of Friends: but not Friends Of:? Does it even really matter, and if so, why should it? It would be ever so much more convenient to see all the entries on one page, wouldn't it? Supposedly, the friends part is the magic of LiveJournal, what makes it so interesting. How does one find people worth reading? Interests is a nice idea but utter bollocks, as far as I can tell.
And then there is the Amerikanska group. They make up the largest part of my Journals bookmark folder. I have theorized that this is because they tend to have a stronger reason for posting.. keeping friends/family at home updated. As always, this theory is probably vastly oversimplified and/or not at all true, but almost every single one of them (and the people on their friends list) post valid, entertaining entries. But it's interesting to me personally because we probably won't ever live there (or at least until we retire or something), and I really and honestly wish we could spend a few years there.. until we have kids. (Perhaps I'll write more about that another time. Almost everyone else says that they want to live in the US until it's time for kids and I'm the exact opposite.) Still yet, most of the people I read have lists mainly comprised of other Americans in Sweden and discuss getting together and such. I'm an American in America. One hates to presume, right?
And also, why do people think that the quizzes are interesting enough to fill a journal with? I admit that I've taken a few (though never posted my results) and I don't particularly care if there are a few in a journal, but why would you post those and nothing else? Does anyone get really excited when they see a journal full of "I'm a neurotic viking" or "I'm a kleptomaniac" or whatever? Someone added me as a friend once and I didn't add them in return because they only posted quizzes, bad poetry, and links to things I didn't want to read, and eventually I noticed that I was no longer a friend. I feel vaguely guilty about that.
I've been very heavily online and techie for five or six years. I met my husband on a roleplaying game, yet I've never actually had a conversation in a chat room, believe it or not. Where is the etiquette to all this?
In other news, my husband just ran into the room, threw a balloon at me and ran back into the living room. On the balloon was written "Hi! Love you!" I'm the luckiest girl in the world. :)
