catching up and social media content
Yessterday I managed to catch up on my friends list reading, despite being more than a month behind. This is a non-trivial exercise, considering that LJ only lets me skip back 140 entries on my flist. It meant that I had to open each of my friended journal and feeds, find the last entry of their I had read, read each one forward until they appeared on my flist proper, and then read my flist forward. Whew.
Granted, I could have said to heck with it and just bid those entries goodbye unread, but I don't like gaps in my reading on LJ that way, so I buckled down and got it read. And there was some really interesting stuff I'd have hated to miss, so I'm glad I did it. I wanted to post a "Huzzah!" last night, but I was too tired; it took something like 5 hours to catch up all the way.
Life has been pretty quiet. I confess, I look around at friends and flist-members and wonder how on Earth people manage to find so much to talk about every day on their myriad social networks. I suspect generating content like that--a surprisingly small percentage of it trivial in the "I just ate a scone" sense of trivial--is a skill one must learn.
Granted, I could have said to heck with it and just bid those entries goodbye unread, but I don't like gaps in my reading on LJ that way, so I buckled down and got it read. And there was some really interesting stuff I'd have hated to miss, so I'm glad I did it. I wanted to post a "Huzzah!" last night, but I was too tired; it took something like 5 hours to catch up all the way.
Life has been pretty quiet. I confess, I look around at friends and flist-members and wonder how on Earth people manage to find so much to talk about every day on their myriad social networks. I suspect generating content like that--a surprisingly small percentage of it trivial in the "I just ate a scone" sense of trivial--is a skill one must learn.