It's accepted. LJ is working on separating the concept of "friends" (people I know intimately and who are allowed to read my private entries) and "reading list" (peoples whose journals I find interesting), but at the moment the two are intertwined in the friendslist. I friend several people who don't friend me, simply because they don't know me from Adam's off ox.
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Betsy HP - Mar 18, 2004 10:47:53 am PST #3577 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
sumi - Mar 18, 2004 10:50:40 am PST #3578 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
But, you can make "custom" Friends -- or a "custom friends list" -- which means that you can send things to people that, for example, you wouldn't want everyone in all the communities you are a member of to read.
Deena - Mar 18, 2004 10:50:55 am PST #3579 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Dani, I only recently learned that it's considered polite to make a post commenting in their journal that you friended them and why.
deborah grabien - Mar 18, 2004 10:51:27 am PST #3580 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Totally accepted. And Dani, I'm debg, so friend me if you like, and I'll friend you right back again.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2004 10:51:55 am PST #3581 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sometimes you meet nice new people that way -- I have at least one person completely unconnected to the rest of my life who friended me because, I think, of Brust and the martial arts. Turns out she's fen, and we have a fair amount in common, so I friended her back.
Others, NSM.
Lyra Jane - Mar 18, 2004 10:51:57 am PST #3582 of 10001
Up with the sun
What Betsy said. It's considered nice to comment shortly after you friend someone so they know why this strange person wants to read about them, but I've skipped that a few times, and had people skip it a few times in friending me. Edit: Massively x-posted.
Lyra Jane - Mar 18, 2004 10:57:18 am PST #3583 of 10001
Up with the sun
you wouldn't want everyone in all the communities you are a member of to read.
I thought that, while a friends-locked entry in a community could be read by anyone in the community, friends-locked entries in personal journals could only be read by people on your personal f'list, so I don't need to worry about all 700 members of buffy_icons knowing about my therapy appointment from the community's friends page.
But yes, filters are handy things when you aren't too lazy to use them.
Dani - Mar 18, 2004 10:58:38 am PST #3584 of 10001
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
Thanks for the tips, everyone. Good to know.
Deb, I will definitely take you up on that offer later today.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2004 11:00:38 am PST #3585 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
friends-locked entries in personal journals could only be read by people on your personal f'list
LJ's right.
P.M. Marc - Mar 18, 2004 11:01:08 am PST #3586 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dani, I only recently learned that it's considered polite to make a post commenting in their journal that you friended them and why.
Eh, some people consider it polite, but I think they are weird people. I really tend to not bother unless they have a stated policy. Of course, normally, I'm adding someone who has added me. And I'd say only two or three people have ever dropped me a line to say they've added me, and I thought it very strange of them to do so.