I've got a couple hundred people on my Flist, and aside from having a filter that screens out the comms (titled "people") I just don't put much effort into catching up on stuff. I try to read regularly, but whatever floats past...floats past. *shrug* If it's important, people will post regularly about it and I'll catch it, then go catch up on their journal. If they really want me to know, they can drop me a comment or an email.
Maybe it makes me kind of a dick, but I don't really feel obligated to catch up w/ peoples' journals, and I don't feel like they're obligated to keep up w/ mine. Unless I remember having a comment exchange w/ someone over topic X, I don't assume they remember my post about it last week or month or year.
Now luckly, I've got a lot of nominally-free and internet-connected time on my hands at work and home, so I do get to keep up w/ my list for the most part, but again, if I miss something, I miss something. C'est la vie.
the 'problem' with my f-list is that about a third of the people on it are really people I've actually spent time with in Real Life (ranging from close friends to not-so-close-but-still-kind-of-important-to-me friends) and/or have known in fannish contexts for close on a decade, which makes me kind of more eager to keep up with how they're doing and stuff than I would with most of the more recent, less RL-based contacts.
Hehe, I have a communities and a people filter, too. But I think what I really need is probably a 'closer friends' filter and then several filters for other people, possibly sorted by fandom or whatever...
Re: Hmm, I think...svilleficrecsMay 19 2007, 01:01:50 UTC
Then it wouldn't work so well for you. No one from my RL (as far as I know, fingers crossed) is on my friends list, it's purely fannish. I've met maybe 10-20 people on my Flist in real life a time or two at fannish gatherings, and I can count on one hand the ones I've met multiple times.
Hmm, I'd say do a tightly culled "must read list" for people you absolutely must read daily (or who don't post that often and you like to keep up with), then maybe a secondary list that you go to when you have a normal amount of time? And you can narrow or widen depending on the day?
Re: Hmm, I think...cathexysMay 19 2007, 01:38:10 UTC
I have several filters (and move people quite frequently) and read depending on time. Fandom newsletters and metafandom keep me updated on interesting posts, and I'll catch up on sicknesses, babies, and cats with as many folks as I have time (and that can be just my narrow RL filter when it gets busy :)
Hm, I think dividing your friends list into filters seem like a convenient idea. I have 120 now plus 26 communities and feeds and I've been easily catching up twice a day, as long as I got DSL in the old computer instead of an unstable router like I have on my computer.
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You seem to have 120, too. Depending on how many days you check your friends page a week, you can divide them in certain days to catch up to a week's worth of entries. Sounds like a plan.
the fandom has gone seriously morbid... it's all incest, rape, zombies, death, and bizarre forms of mutilation now!
Ooops. I'm probably slightly at fault here. Though if you get to read dorcas_gustine's "zombie fic", then do. It's not actually a zombie fic, although some of us wish it were!!!
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Maybe it makes me kind of a dick, but I don't really feel obligated to catch up w/ peoples' journals, and I don't feel like they're obligated to keep up w/ mine. Unless I remember having a comment exchange w/ someone over topic X, I don't assume they remember my post about it last week or month or year.
Now luckly, I've got a lot of nominally-free and internet-connected time on my hands at work and home, so I do get to keep up w/ my list for the most part, but again, if I miss something, I miss something. C'est la vie.
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Hehe, I have a communities and a people filter, too. But I think what I really need is probably a 'closer friends' filter and then several filters for other people, possibly sorted by fandom or whatever...
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Hmm, I'd say do a tightly culled "must read list" for people you absolutely must read daily (or who don't post that often and you like to keep up with), then maybe a secondary list that you go to when you have a normal amount of time? And you can narrow or widen depending on the day?
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Good luck!!!
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*checks*
You seem to have 120, too. Depending on how many days you check your friends page a week, you can divide them in certain days to catch up to a week's worth of entries. Sounds like a plan.
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Ooops. I'm probably slightly at fault here. Though if you get to read dorcas_gustine's "zombie fic", then do. It's not actually a zombie fic, although some of us wish it were!!!
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