LiveJournal is a black morass of confusion
So I guess, given that we're posting journal entries in a public forum, that it's a good thing that it can be so hard to find out to whom a journal belongs. The unfortunate part of it is that it makes it a bit hard for one to get set up.
For example, I just added about 20 (maybe -- I'm guessing) people to my friends list. This process took about an hour, this largely because I had no good way of knowing who most of them were and I had to start looking through their journal entries. (My thanks, by the way, to those of you who have a picture of yourselves or a comprehensible username on your page. I still love the rest of you, but it'll take me some time to get used to these new identities). Towards the end, I gave up and just started adding people, so I now do not actually know the identity of about half the people on my friends list. At this point, I'm OK with this.
The other issue I'm running up against is what to post about. Like this post, for instance, is kind of just me rambling on. I don't see it holding a lot of real interest for other people. Which seems to be the general LiveJournal convention, from what I can tell. Not that that's a bad thing...
There was a guest on the Colber Report a week or two ago who talked about the rise, hand-in-hand, of social networking sites and narcissism in American culture. I bring this up because I didn't get it at the time but at this moment I really, really do -- in writing this post, I feel like a giant Ball o' Ego.
I guess talking about trivial things is a very normal conversational practice amongst friends (russiandude and aumshantih, expect to hear all of this again at game tonight :P), but I'm really not used to writing this way.
I'm sure I will eventually acclimate, though. And in the meantime, I get to kvetch! Hooray!
*Edit: Also, is there a rule as to how we refer to people? Like, real name vs. livejournal name? I'd really like to know...
For example, I just added about 20 (maybe -- I'm guessing) people to my friends list. This process took about an hour, this largely because I had no good way of knowing who most of them were and I had to start looking through their journal entries. (My thanks, by the way, to those of you who have a picture of yourselves or a comprehensible username on your page. I still love the rest of you, but it'll take me some time to get used to these new identities). Towards the end, I gave up and just started adding people, so I now do not actually know the identity of about half the people on my friends list. At this point, I'm OK with this.
The other issue I'm running up against is what to post about. Like this post, for instance, is kind of just me rambling on. I don't see it holding a lot of real interest for other people. Which seems to be the general LiveJournal convention, from what I can tell. Not that that's a bad thing...
There was a guest on the Colber Report a week or two ago who talked about the rise, hand-in-hand, of social networking sites and narcissism in American culture. I bring this up because I didn't get it at the time but at this moment I really, really do -- in writing this post, I feel like a giant Ball o' Ego.
I guess talking about trivial things is a very normal conversational practice amongst friends (russiandude and aumshantih, expect to hear all of this again at game tonight :P), but I'm really not used to writing this way.
I'm sure I will eventually acclimate, though. And in the meantime, I get to kvetch! Hooray!
*Edit: Also, is there a rule as to how we refer to people? Like, real name vs. livejournal name? I'd really like to know...