oh those lurker tendencies of mine...
So I've had several hours over the past couple of days where I've just been bored and wound up doing this thing where I'll go on LJ and see one interesting post or person, and click to a link to someone else's lj post, or click on lj user info, and then click on communities they belong to that have interesting sounding names, and then click on someone who said something interesting there or had an interesting icon... and after about 20 minutes I'm really far from where I've started and can't even trace my way back. Yesterday I swear I started off in something fandom related and wound up in vaginapagina.
Anyway, in my lurking and going through links, etc. I've noticed two interesting phenomena. 1. It is inevitable that if you do this enough, you will somehow wind up in some sort of teenyboppers bitchfight. The "nuh-uh, you lied about sleeping with my man and your fat an' ugly too!" sort of thing. Which, even if I don't remember how I got there, I've found the best option is to click back as much as possible to get the hell out of their proximity. But it happens.
The other phenomenon I've noticed is posts along the line of "sorry for spamming you, flist" which I just find to be a really weird sentiment. I mean, I feel like I'm still fairly new to lj (even though I've actually been here for... 4 months? 5? wow) and I guess I don't totally know how it works. I guess it's because I'm still mostly anti-social and haven't run out and got myself a huge flist and don't have to post being mindful of people who read, but I just kind of think that as long as it's your journal, you should be able to post whatever the hell you want without apologizing (obviously I don't think this for offensive/hateful material but that's not the type of post I'm referring to, so I won't even go there). And maybe people think that if it's only for you, you should do a private post, but maybe someone else will find it interesting. After all, people choose to friend you just as much as they can choose not to read certain posts. And maybe if someone built up a friends-of list of 200+ by being a thoughtful, intelligent, talented individual and then suddenly switched to posting every five minutes with "Join my new ratings community, are you hot____________. We're totally better than the others out there, honest!!!" then, yeah, that would be considered spam. But I feel like if you want to write five posts in a day, even if they're only one liners to squee about how wonderful your significant other is, or to say "last night's episode of Lost sucked", then that's your prerogative. I just don't think it's human nature or doing what you want to do if you're more mindful of who might be reading and feel the need to make every post intelligent and entertaining. But hey, that's me. I'm quite happy with my non-thought-provoking LJ, thank you very much.
And also with my free time (I love that exams are finally over, and wow, I am never going to get my paper done, am I?), I went on another whim of mine and made a new website for my fic. Not that it's remotely anything special or huge, but I actually find it fun to play around with that stuff, even with my very, very limited knowledge of html. I figured out how to do a funky background (kind of)!! Anyway, the main reason was that I have all my longish fics at ff.net but have never felt particularly inclined to post drabbles there (because of ... what? oh, the SPAMMING, snap! My standards are different for other sites, I guess.), so I wanted a place for ALL of my writings, including drabbles. So that's that. It'll perhaps serve a bigger purpose after I write more, but I don't think I'll be doing anymore of that until I go home in a few weeks, since the paper comes first! Ok, done now.
Anyway, in my lurking and going through links, etc. I've noticed two interesting phenomena. 1. It is inevitable that if you do this enough, you will somehow wind up in some sort of teenyboppers bitchfight. The "nuh-uh, you lied about sleeping with my man and your fat an' ugly too!" sort of thing. Which, even if I don't remember how I got there, I've found the best option is to click back as much as possible to get the hell out of their proximity. But it happens.
The other phenomenon I've noticed is posts along the line of "sorry for spamming you, flist" which I just find to be a really weird sentiment. I mean, I feel like I'm still fairly new to lj (even though I've actually been here for... 4 months? 5? wow) and I guess I don't totally know how it works. I guess it's because I'm still mostly anti-social and haven't run out and got myself a huge flist and don't have to post being mindful of people who read, but I just kind of think that as long as it's your journal, you should be able to post whatever the hell you want without apologizing (obviously I don't think this for offensive/hateful material but that's not the type of post I'm referring to, so I won't even go there). And maybe people think that if it's only for you, you should do a private post, but maybe someone else will find it interesting. After all, people choose to friend you just as much as they can choose not to read certain posts. And maybe if someone built up a friends-of list of 200+ by being a thoughtful, intelligent, talented individual and then suddenly switched to posting every five minutes with "Join my new ratings community, are you hot____________. We're totally better than the others out there, honest!!!" then, yeah, that would be considered spam. But I feel like if you want to write five posts in a day, even if they're only one liners to squee about how wonderful your significant other is, or to say "last night's episode of Lost sucked", then that's your prerogative. I just don't think it's human nature or doing what you want to do if you're more mindful of who might be reading and feel the need to make every post intelligent and entertaining. But hey, that's me. I'm quite happy with my non-thought-provoking LJ, thank you very much.
And also with my free time (I love that exams are finally over, and wow, I am never going to get my paper done, am I?), I went on another whim of mine and made a new website for my fic. Not that it's remotely anything special or huge, but I actually find it fun to play around with that stuff, even with my very, very limited knowledge of html. I figured out how to do a funky background (kind of)!! Anyway, the main reason was that I have all my longish fics at ff.net but have never felt particularly inclined to post drabbles there (because of ... what? oh, the SPAMMING, snap! My standards are different for other sites, I guess.), so I wanted a place for ALL of my writings, including drabbles. So that's that. It'll perhaps serve a bigger purpose after I write more, but I don't think I'll be doing anymore of that until I go home in a few weeks, since the paper comes first! Ok, done now.