Oh, I'm a big fandom ho. I basically will friend those who have friended me after a quick check in their journals to make certain they aren't utterly nuts.
My personal journal, which I deleted about a year ago, had about 80 or so people on it, a fairly large number of which were people I knew in real life, so the size of this one sort of snuck up on me.
LJ has, in many ways, basically replaced heavy-traffic mailing lists, just in the couple of years I've been in fandom, and allows me to sort of create-my-own fandom experience. I don't always click on the cut tags--I'm probably more likely to read someone's personal entries or episode related thoughts than stories (because I'm still in more of a writing than reading mode at the moment)--but I make a note of things I want to check out later when I have time, and if there's a good discussion on, will leave the window with that post open until the discussion peters out.
LJ has, in many ways, basically replaced heavy-traffic mailing lists, just in the couple of years I've been in fandom, and allows me to sort of create-my-own fandom experience.
That's a really cool way of describing the benefits of LJ. I, too, tried mailing lists and found that all the stuff in my inbox was crazy to keep up with. I still find myself deleting randomly within the mailing lists that I'm still part of because of time consumption.
if there's a good discussion on, will leave the window with that post open until the discussion peters out.
Good tip. I usually log out and check back later only to find that the discussion has spiralled out of control.
Do you use the filter system? Just curious to know if that works well as a way of managing information or do you still end up in the same bind with too many LJ's to keep track of.
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Date: 2003-11-14 07:56 am (UTC)From:My personal journal, which I deleted about a year ago, had about 80 or so people on it, a fairly large number of which were people I knew in real life, so the size of this one sort of snuck up on me.
LJ has, in many ways, basically replaced heavy-traffic mailing lists, just in the couple of years I've been in fandom, and allows me to sort of create-my-own fandom experience. I don't always click on the cut tags--I'm probably more likely to read someone's personal entries or episode related thoughts than stories (because I'm still in more of a writing than reading mode at the moment)--but I make a note of things I want to check out later when I have time, and if there's a good discussion on, will leave the window with that post open until the discussion peters out.
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Date: 2003-11-14 01:35 pm (UTC)From:That's a really cool way of describing the benefits of LJ. I, too, tried mailing lists and found that all the stuff in my inbox was crazy to keep up with. I still find myself deleting randomly within the mailing lists that I'm still part of because of time consumption.
if there's a good discussion on, will leave the window with that post open until the discussion peters out.
Good tip. I usually log out and check back later only to find that the discussion has spiralled out of control.
Do you use the filter system? Just curious to know if that works well as a way of managing information or do you still end up in the same bind with too many LJ's to keep track of.