I'm just curious.

[in_the_blue]

One of you mentioned yesterday about LJ friends lists being a popularity thing: how many of you have journals just to see how many people friend you? What was the reason you started your livejournal?

I started mine because sff_corgi badgered me into it. I didn't want to do it and I didn't care that much about it. I was always a pretty private person and didn't really feel that a public journal was going to be the least bit interesting; people who knew me knew me and those who didn't... well, didn't, and I'm pretty cut-and-dried and I don't care.

But now I like it. Part of it is because of the networking and meeting people with similar interests. Part of it is because of the beta-reading work I do. Part of it is just for fun. Part of it is so I can bitch to whomever wants to listen. Part of it is because I like to write. Part of it is just another obsession.

So, why did you start your journal? What do you like best about it? What pieces of it bug the shit out of you? If you read my journal, why do you read it? Do you read random journals just for fun? I guess some enterprising soul could turn this into a meme if they wanted.

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

Wow. how coudl I forgeet this one completel yafter savign it for "hmmm..interesting"?
I found LJ years ago while Iread afew of mybeatels friends. I onl ygot intersted inbloggi nfr myself when everyoe nstarted puttign their usernames intheir sigs and all that. THe nI First got oen ofthos efree ones at blurty.com. Adn then hafl ayear later oen of m ybest friends gave me an lj code (which was or perhaps sitl lis a ay to get apermanent free journal) adn that's when the fun started. so I was happily moving into my new "home of thoughts"and erm...in the midst of readign ootp still.



I found you...I don't know how exactl yanymore. either I aded thigns t o my interests and foudn you through het!Sirius. or i had subscribed to quickquote where the whole buckwah started about sirisu being a sociopath or erm...well the whoel tralala of "how to watch sirisu thorugh Snape's eyes whie tryig nnotto soudn like Severus himself". adn t somewher inal the linsk it mentioned yoru rant on sirius adn I absolutely...I mean this woman siriusstar I'd been havign daily logn emails with about all that kidn of stuff and when yorus popped i nI was liek "She shairs her mind!"it was almsot her talking, really.
And then I wento yoru site.adn then to sff_corgi adn then I went "Hey...corgi'*thinkthink* hah! marauder fics on sugar quill!
SO..erm...it's thorugh you and her I foud na wohel stack of others. I jsut realized days ago that I have about *counts* five? six? SQ-eers in my lj adn I believe most of them I didn't even added BECAUSE they came from there. it's more like "hey, she soundds nice"and then after reading miles away I check their sitesand its'"Oh.she's inthe professor's bookshelf!
And you? I'mreading yo ubecause it's ben insightful, fun and well, als obecause..you know..Sirius!
ahem. That said, I'm loving this place even if it's sometims gloomy and dar kand somewhat tense.
As of friendding. whe nI come across osmethign new I have this pre-friending habit of jsut bookmarkign them in the same fodler as all m yother lj-related stuffand readign along for a while. It's jsut a way of real ygeting to know someoen. I started that afte I've had TWO whoel experiences of simy addign someoen and finding outthey were SO not what I'd liek to read on a dail ybasis.
Phiew. That was all I think. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/erised1810/2003/09/12.html)