LJ and writing

[symian]

There was a time I stopped writing here on Livejournal more than a post a day or so. It was that I wrote a post and then waited to see if I got any responses. I found that people mostly did not read back very far on their f/list. I wanted people to read what I wrote and was giving them time to read it. That was a mistake on my part because it

Comments

[itsjustc]

I'm a bit OCD! I have to read back at everyone's posts since I last looked and then comment on what I can before I can post in my own journal!

[symian]

Me too. We are the exceptions to the rule. :)

[pasticcio]

I'm the same way ;)

[symian]

Yes, you are. :)

[edgeofthewoods]

Agreed!

I figure people should feel free to post WHAT they want, and as OFTEN as they want.

C'est ca!

[1_bluebubble]

Sometimes I can't tell if no one has anything to comment on my posts or if they just didn't see it. I usually assume they didn't see it. :(

[symian]

Well, I do see everything. I just don't always have a comment. Most people don't read back, though. :/

[eyesonstars]

I always say it's your blog, you can post or not post whatever you want provided you do filters for adult material/subjects.

I have found people are usually surprised when I go to their journals and read to catch up (if I've been away awhile)instead of just reading the last few posts and then asking what's up when I don't understand a situation that they're posting about currently. It takes two to keep a friendship up. One-sided friends that are all about them are boring.

I do journal catch-up mainly to keep the right person in mind as I read their posts. Reading through f-list is jumping back-and-forth between different people and when it's more than three people it's hard to keep track of who said what and what they're going through.

[symian]

Yes, you do have go read back to understand what they are talking about. I find that I have to do it more often than not. I do try to read back through all of my friends, way back to the start of the journal. It does take me sometime to do though.

[eyesonstars]

Are you serious?! All the way back to the beginning of the journal?? I've never had to go that far back.

[symian]

It is not need, it is interest. I like to see progressions, how people change. LJ is the best for doing that. :)