What I've learned about Live Journal since 2000:*

[masscooper]

Don't read other people's archived entries if you've just met them in real life. You wouldn't want them to judge you by what sort of ridiculous state you were in a few years ago, would you?

Don't make that bitchy post public and pretend you don't want the subject to see it. It'll feel good for about 30 minutes, and when you realize what a bad

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[jabberwocki]

don't post naked pictures of yourself!

do post naked pictures of other people!
mwahahah

[jabberwocki]

in other news, thank goodness I date illiterate iowa boys, and not drama queen chicks!

[masscooper]

I dunno, your boys seem to have their share of drama.

[jabberwocki]

only because they're associating with me!

[masscooper]

Because! I want them to be used and loved, not sitting in plastic bags 100 feet from you!

Yeah, well, as you know I've done it too.

[masscooper]

um. in a not gross way. Or, you know, a gross way if you want, but that's not what I meant.

Oh god.

[kneidlach]

This is so perfect. I could probably add a few of my own, tho.

[masscooper]

Please do!

[danielray]

i was back-privating assorted old lj entries form when i first started journaling here, and i was actually rather surprised how unmortified i was at most of what i wrote.

[masscooper]

Congratulations!

I was more mortified by the bad writing in mine than most of the subject matter. But that's a continuing affair.

[gordonzola]

all good rules.

For #2 though you can make a filter of just the subject. Then pretend it's an entry for all your friends so they think they're being talked about to everyone. Now that's evil.

[masscooper]

You're a bad, bad man.