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This morning when I was logging in to LJ, I noticed that the LJ opening page had the following:
I am so totally taking this too seriously. ;)
~B
The most popular interests on LiveJournal are:I thought, that's silly, why would anyone list these as interests. Sure, everyone likes movies and music, and friends, and most people on LJ are self-selected readers and writers. Why not be more specific. Then curious, I looked at my own interests list and saw that I had indeed noted music, movies, reading, writing, & friends. I have removed these. Please note that this does not mean that I am no longer interested in music, movies, reading, writing, or friends. I still like all of these things. I onyl hope that music, movies, reading, writing, and friends don't take it personally, but I'm running out of space in my interests list, what with all the many things I have to tell you about my uniqueness through a list of (up to 150) nouns that are important to me, I haven't space in my interest list for things that really should be a given.
music movies reading writing friends
I am so totally taking this too seriously. ;)
~B
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Change?
Waitaminute... chameleons change to blend in... I change because I am a super, dynamic individual... I'm not a lemming, totally. Nevermind, that I have an LJ. I didn't do it because I'm a big joiner. Really.
Do I protest to much? ;-)
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Nah, you're not, because I've had this same debate with myself. :)
I have friendship listed, because I am interested in how that develops & what defines it, but I don't have friends as an interest. Of course they're an interest, or they wouldn't be friends! Never bothered to list movies, and writing got removed several revisions ago. I won't remove reading,even if it is common, because *I'm* a real reader, unlike all those fakers out there just putting it in to look good. ;p
I'll have to ponder music again. It's currently listed because I'm not going to hog space listing specific genres or artists (it would take less room to list what I *don't* like), and because I respond quite happily to most invitations to experience it. But that leads to a debate I've had with myself over the listing of the the specific vs. the generic - for the most part I've listed the most generic phrase that covers my interests, without listing any specifics, but this means that someone skimming my list might not see any common interests listed. Wah!