A few thoughts about LJ
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LiveJournal is a weird beast. Allow me to explain what I mean by that and thereby waste several minutes of your life that, let's face it, you would have wasted just as unproductively elsewhere.
Locked posts have never struck me as well-implemented. I just don't understand them. I'm not the paranoid type that constantly wonders whether someone I know will find my journal and find out I wrote nasty stuff about them. I insult most of my friends to their faces without a shred of regret, and if I don't care whether I hurt their feelings why the hell should I worry about people I don't even like? That being said, sometimes I feel the need to write something but am unable to figure how to word it properly and fear someone may take it the wrong way. I don't care if I make enemies with my blunt nature, but I don't need people thinking I'm suicidal or an axe murderer or something. At times like those, I may consider friends-locking the post. Unfortunately, most of the people I would prefer to hide the post from are ALREADY on my friends list. So much for THAT idea. Private posts may fit the bill, but the concept of putting something on an online journal that only you will see is completely counter to the whole "attention whore" aspect of the LiveJournal experience. (And yes, I count myself among the attention whores. Why else would I make all my posts public? Seriously now, let's not lie to ourselves. Just say it: "I like receiving attention from other people". There's nothing wrong with it, and you'll feel a lot better.)
So normally, I just let those posts wither and die on their own. Two days later I don't remember what I wanted to write about, so the dilemma solves itself quite nicely. Still, I can't help but feel LiveJournal would benefit greatly from a "selective reading" type of post where only friends you designate are able to read the post. I'm sure lots of people would relish the opportunity to bitch about their friends behind their backs, and it would keep people from worrying unnecessarily about me. Everybody wins. Well, except for the people being bitched about I guess. And for the people on my friends' list who would rather not have the "honor" of being deemed worthy of listening to more of my babbles.
Side note: if you're one of the latter, why are you still reading this? Go play more video games. Actually, even if you like reading my rants video games wouldn't be a bad idea. As some random dude in Wild Arms 4 said, "The world would be a much more peaceful place if everyone just played more video games." Preach it brother.
Now, where was I?
Moving on to the next LJ related topic: friends-only journals. Now, these things completely baffle me. So you won't let people read your livejournal unless they a) put you on their friend's list, b) email you to tell you they are on your friends list, and c) wait for you to get off your lazy ass and add them to your friend's list? There's no way I would consider my brain-diarrhea to be a sufficient reward for all that hoop-jumping, and I doubt anyone else's is worth it either. I often won't go to such lengths for a journal that posts j-pop, and I loves me my j-pop. Granted I am an exceedingly lazy person but my point still stands: if you want to meet new people through LJ, making them endure such an asinine procedure just to see a single one of your posts is not going to convince them that you're cool.
I guess that's all the LJ-themed ranting I have for now.
LiveJournal is a weird beast. Allow me to explain what I mean by that and thereby waste several minutes of your life that, let's face it, you would have wasted just as unproductively elsewhere.
Locked posts have never struck me as well-implemented. I just don't understand them. I'm not the paranoid type that constantly wonders whether someone I know will find my journal and find out I wrote nasty stuff about them. I insult most of my friends to their faces without a shred of regret, and if I don't care whether I hurt their feelings why the hell should I worry about people I don't even like? That being said, sometimes I feel the need to write something but am unable to figure how to word it properly and fear someone may take it the wrong way. I don't care if I make enemies with my blunt nature, but I don't need people thinking I'm suicidal or an axe murderer or something. At times like those, I may consider friends-locking the post. Unfortunately, most of the people I would prefer to hide the post from are ALREADY on my friends list. So much for THAT idea. Private posts may fit the bill, but the concept of putting something on an online journal that only you will see is completely counter to the whole "attention whore" aspect of the LiveJournal experience. (And yes, I count myself among the attention whores. Why else would I make all my posts public? Seriously now, let's not lie to ourselves. Just say it: "I like receiving attention from other people". There's nothing wrong with it, and you'll feel a lot better.)
So normally, I just let those posts wither and die on their own. Two days later I don't remember what I wanted to write about, so the dilemma solves itself quite nicely. Still, I can't help but feel LiveJournal would benefit greatly from a "selective reading" type of post where only friends you designate are able to read the post. I'm sure lots of people would relish the opportunity to bitch about their friends behind their backs, and it would keep people from worrying unnecessarily about me. Everybody wins. Well, except for the people being bitched about I guess. And for the people on my friends' list who would rather not have the "honor" of being deemed worthy of listening to more of my babbles.
Side note: if you're one of the latter, why are you still reading this? Go play more video games. Actually, even if you like reading my rants video games wouldn't be a bad idea. As some random dude in Wild Arms 4 said, "The world would be a much more peaceful place if everyone just played more video games." Preach it brother.
Now, where was I?
Moving on to the next LJ related topic: friends-only journals. Now, these things completely baffle me. So you won't let people read your livejournal unless they a) put you on their friend's list, b) email you to tell you they are on your friends list, and c) wait for you to get off your lazy ass and add them to your friend's list? There's no way I would consider my brain-diarrhea to be a sufficient reward for all that hoop-jumping, and I doubt anyone else's is worth it either. I often won't go to such lengths for a journal that posts j-pop, and I loves me my j-pop. Granted I am an exceedingly lazy person but my point still stands: if you want to meet new people through LJ, making them endure such an asinine procedure just to see a single one of your posts is not going to convince them that you're cool.
I guess that's all the LJ-themed ranting I have for now.