Lemming, twice

[telophase]

OK, I'm posting again, BUT I GOT THE DATABASE CONSTRUCTED too bad it won't talk to the script, though.

[ edit: Just realized this sounds like the survey the graphic leads to is what I was working on. Nope. I took a break from the database above, which is (heh) a survey, but it has to do with the librari I work at, to do the survey below and post the graphic. ]




BACK TO WORK.

Comments

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

Defriending drama? Okay, then.

[janni.livejournal.com]

I just a couple days ago had to explain to someone, after they mentioned being troubled by being defriended, that the fact that I removed them from my reading list didn't mean I hated them, or was offended by anything they'd said.

Silly, but true.

This sort of thing is the single thing I hate most about livejournal. (Maybe the only one. I like lj muchly overall.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Someone or other on my friendslist a few weeks ago was talking about being unsettled by people who friended her without announcing or introducng themselves, which totally does not compute with me. "Friends" is an unfortunate name choice, but they couldn't know when writing the original code how big and how diverse LJ would become.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Heck, I figure if someone actually wants to read the words I'm writing, I'm going to be more flattered than anything else.

If I didn't want them to read those words, I wouldn't put them out in public.

I try to remember that there are many ways of using an online journal. Still, I wish folks would approach the whole exercise a bit less angstfully.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Couple months ago, I had someone post a comment to a random entry of mine indicating that she really really wanted to read the friends-only journal of someone else on my friendslist, that she'd friended this person, and did I know how to get that person to friend her back? After blinking a few times, I replied that the person would check her LJ info, see her name, and go check out her journal and make the decision then. She thanked me, said she was worried that her journal wasn't exciting enough because she almost never used it, and then never posted in my journal again.

If I were getting crazy-stalker-vibes from people like that, I'd be a bit concerned about who was friending me and why, but you just don't have to friend them back and they'll never see anything that you keep under wraps.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

How very bizarre. I friend people without worrying if they'll friend me back. I use the function because I'm lazy and don't want to click to all the journals I like to read. If someone I friend likes what I write well enough to reciprocate, great! If not, it's no big deal. I guess I'll never earn my internet drama badge.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I get a special frisson of "Ooooh, they found my journal interesting enough to friend back!" if they do, but it doesn't bother me if they don't.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's not the database I was working on - it's a survey meme thing that I took when I was taking a break from the database at work. :)

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

So that works? My answers are being sent off somewhere?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Fuck if I know. That's not the databse I'm talking about, that's a random meme. :)

The database I'm tlaking about is the one that I was complaining about needing to work on at the library in the previous LJ entry.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Ah okay.