A while ago, theferrett would post periodic 'pimp my write' posts. Basically, everyone would post and link what they felt their best post in the last month was
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My journal tends to be a fairly random event, as the goal is to immediately tell about forty friends what cool thing I've found, read, watched, or made today. Looking back on the first page, I think the Hong Kong subs guessing game incorporates a few of the more common elements: One Piece, linguistic curiosities, and silliness. It doesn't matter that only two people responded, partly because I know the ones I wanted to read it, read it, and partly because the fun part for me was giggling as I typed it up.
Illustrated etiquette of the 1920s is a good one for FL reaction and chat. Wider appeal, interesting, not a meme or link repost. That's fun, but if I thought fifteen comments a post were necessary then I'd post more about things that would interest other people and less about things that interest me, and it ceases to be my journal. It instead becomes communal talk space of which I am the instigator, half the argument, and impromptu moderator- much like your LJ here.
Your failed assumption in this post is that most folks have goals for thier LJs, instead of the being a result of convulted turns of events that lead to all of their Internet Friends having one and a natural penchant for exhibistionism.
Nonetheless, I guess my favorite posts in the past year have been this one and this one? Perhaps 'favorite' is less a word than 'typical'? I do not know!
And the most common one, yes. Your assumption would be certainly correct for, say, anyone with an account on Blogger. But LJ is designed more for personal journals, with no applicable goal needed or wanted.
Hell, I intended my journal, back in the heady days of 2003, to be solely a writing/feedback medium. It didn't work out.
My livejournal has evolved from the typical wangstbucket of a 16-year-old, to a 21-year-olds base of communications (most of my better friends lived more than 100 miles away), link/photo dump, and sometimes wangstbucket. I just like being funny.
Honestly, I'm not really sure why non-friends add me, it's a whole lot of silly with comics commentary, shoptalk, and links I found on boingboing or digg .
I don't know what my main goal is. It used to be to get lots of people to care about and sympathize with my life, but then I had an unfortunate incident with a rather nasty ex-roommate and decided to make my journal friends-only. Basically I just write about the incidents in my life that stick out most, but I also do a lot of self-analyzing and such. I try to use my journal as a forum sometimes, but since most of my friends don't like to/are too busy to comment, that usually doesn't work too well. I also pimp my writing, which no one but my best friend ever reads (have a seperate writing journal that I linked to in my info), and I go on tirades about things that irritate me, which keeps me from tirading at anyone specific (such as my mother, who was sick of my tirading years ago).
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Illustrated etiquette of the 1920s is a good one for FL reaction and chat. Wider appeal, interesting, not a meme or link repost. That's fun, but if I thought fifteen comments a post were necessary then I'd post more about things that would interest other people and less about things that interest me, and it ceases to be my journal. It instead becomes communal talk space of which I am the instigator, half the argument, and impromptu moderator- much like your LJ here.
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Nonetheless, I guess my favorite posts in the past year have been this one and this one? Perhaps 'favorite' is less a word than 'typical'? I do not know!
Good day, sir.
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Hell, I intended my journal, back in the heady days of 2003, to be solely a writing/feedback medium. It didn't work out.
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The typical: My scintillating commentary on U.S. news, and an update on what I'm doing with comics and More shop talk and a screencap.
The best: As concise as I get.
Honestly, I'm not really sure why non-friends add me, it's a whole lot of silly with comics commentary, shoptalk, and links I found on boingboing or digg .
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I guess stress relief is a good indication.
I like this entry, even though it's a bit old: http://kisekinotenshi.livejournal.com/372560.html
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