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[ocelot]

Sometimes I read through my friendsfriends page or otherwise stumble across entries which have a question or poll that I want to respond to, but I don't, because I'm a random stranger and that would be weird.

So if you're a random stranger reading this entry... this is your chance. Take this poll. I promise it won't creep me out, and I actually want your input. People I'm aware are reading are welcome and encouraged to respond too, of course.

Usual Disclaimer: "Viewable By None" means that I can see individual answers, but everyone else can only see the aggregate answers, so "none" isn't really accurate. Nothing in particular prompted this post. It's just some things I've been wondering about for a while.

Finally, if you're reading this journal regularly and don't have me friended, please feel free to introduce yourself in comments if you feel comfortable doing so. Anonymous comments are screened, but I'll see them, and will unscreen if requested and you aren't a spammer.

ETA: If you came here because someone else linked you to this post, choose "Other" for question 1. I thought I'd covered that option, but I guess not :)

[Poll #990184]

ETA: So that this isn't a one-way flow of information - I read friendsfriends, other people's friends pages, and community friends pages, so it isn't going to disturb me at all if you do the same :) I do so because I'm bored, to find interesting people/communities, or to find potential mutual friends. I often read journals of people I find interesting without saying anything, either because I'm shy or because they seem to write for a public audience and it doesn't seem necessary. I don't use LJToys or anything similar (other than voluntary polls like this). I'm as curious as anyone about who reads my journal, but I don't consider it reliable, and feel the amount of info it provides about how people use their journals to be at least as invasive as reading someone's journal without telling them.

Comments

*waves*

[elizabethxiii.livejournal.com]

hey, it's liz from the octbabies2006 community! i accidently hit 'view friends page' of the comm instead of my own, and that is how i found your poll! not stalkerish at all, i promise! ;)

~liz

ps: and yes, i took the poll. i'm the one that clicked almost everything for my reasons for reading friendsfriends pages! ;)

Re: *waves*

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Don't worry - I've read it just to see what people were up to, so it doesn't bother me at all :)

Re: *waves*

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Also, I almost always fill out folks' polls when I find them reading friendsfriends, or community friends lists. ;)

[tashiekitten.livejournal.com]

Hi, I am your crazy stalker :)

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

OH NOES!!!!!!!!! :)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I found this post through someone else's link, and I only occasionally read friendsfriends or other people's flists. (My flist is so big that friendsfriends has a very high noise to signal ratio.)

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Adding ?show=P on the end of the URL will show only people journals (no feeds or communities). You can also use filters to limit it to friends of only really interesting people (friendsfriends/filtername), though I discovered, using that method, that friendsfriends does not seem to pick up friends list entries from all my friends - if I use a small filter, it will sometimes come up blank, even though everyone on the filter had friends who had posted recently.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't know that second thing. I'd probably have to make a new filter for it, but maybe I will if I get bored enough someday.

[yndy.livejournal.com]

my "other" answers about friend's friends list etc reflect the fact that while I've tried it once or twice, too many of my friends seem to subscribe to high volume communities that don't interest me, so scrolling past 100 odd comm posts to find the one or two real people isn't worth it...
the only time I read someone specific's friends page is when they refer to something as if it's common knowledge - and it's actually something someone else posted on their FL...

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Adding ?show=P on the end of the URL will show only people journals (no feeds or communities). You can also use filters to limit it to friends of only really interesting people (friendsfriends/filtername), though I discovered, using that method, that friendsfriends does not seem to pick up friends list entries from all my friends - if I use a small filter, it will sometimes come up blank, even though everyone on the filter had friends who had posted recently.

[ticktockman.livejournal.com]

One of my friends (mactavish linked to the entry.

*daha*

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[oaksong.livejournal.com]

Me three.

[twirlingecho.livejournal.com]

Hi! This is Sharon from XPFC. I don't keep up with journal reading every day, so I read journals directly through a list of bookmarks rather than from my friends page, so sometimes I just don't think to friend someone. And sometimes I'm a bit shy about commenting (or just don't have much time to comment). I friended you now, though- hope that's okay! I enjoy reading your journal and seeing what you and your kids are up to!