Yeah, but if I do that, I never see them anyway. Might as well just bookmark, in that case.

Yes, the only advantages are that you retain posting access, and they're still listed on your profile page.

There are a couple of people who I know IRL that never friended me.

Hmmm, I don't think I have you friended, but don't take it personally. I'm just lazy about maintaining my lists and forget how to do it. I think I spent about a half hour on it when I first got started and that's about it. I should probably prune and add and stuff but I can't be arsed.

Speaking of LJ, does someone (Cindy?) really have a LJ-->buffista list out there? Because I could really use something like that.

Cindy, would you mind zapping it to me as well? I'm zonewombat on LJ, FTR.

Can I nudge the LJ conversation on a quick tangent? I just logged into Friendster, after not going there for a couple years (because I'd finally had enough of their emails telling me how great they are now). Does anyone here use Friendster for anything? I don't mind having an account there, but I'm not sure what it's for.

but don't take it personally

Hi, I'm Aimee, The Classic Everyone-Must-Like-Me-and-Show-It Empress of Clinginess. Have we met?

Betsy and others who tend to friend whatever they're interested in reading, how do you keep up?

Like Betsy, I read quickly. I generally scan, because most of my flist's entries fall under "this is what the baby's doing/this is how the job's going/here's a new fic", and scanning lets me know "baby's doing fine--oh, new picture!/boss is still a git and person's still employed/ooo, fic!".

Empress of Clinginess

dryer sheets will prevent this.

Yes, but then nothing clings and I am lonely and sad.

Cindy, would you mind zapping it to me as well? I'm zonewombat on LJ, FTR.

Raq, I friended you (hereward on lj), as I remembered your flickr name. Lately, I've been all Serenity loves carrots, but my lj is pretty much fandom stuff and SCA stuff, with very occasional personal stuff (lazy and hermity by nature).

I friended you, too, Raq. I'm susanw there.

I do kinda wish I had the time and energy to go back and edit my public web presence to only the things I really want out there now that I'm planning to be a semi-public author-type person if/when I sell a book.

There's so much me online now that I've come to accept that anyone can find out way too much about me from Google, and my name is still uncommon enough for there to only be one other adult with my name.

And I don't use LJ, I'm all MovableType (since I got a big honking license for cheap from them thanks to being a beta tester). However, there are a few LJs I read frequently. I can't read the friendslock posts, and that's fine with me. I probably don't want to know about it, anyway.

The only thing I never, ever blog about is work. I know someone whose 15 minutes of fame is getting fired for blogging about work (and it's not Heather Armstrong). And while most of my office doesn't know what a blog is, I still fear that one day someone will figure it out and piece together that some of my posts were made during work hours.