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Friday Five...
Feb. 29th, 2008 09:44 amFrom ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chasmine17
1. How long ago did you join LJ?
Technically, I started an account in 2000 when looking around for an online journalling site. I also found OpenDiary around that time and liked the format MUCH better (I was young, I was too impatient to play around and discover all the amazingness that is LJ at the time), so I never used my LJ account. The first LJ account I actually started using lists 1/31/2002 as its creation date, and that was my first entry in it.
2. How did you find out about LJ?
Just searching on Yahoo! (this was back before I started Googling everything ;-)) for online journal sites. I'm not really sure what drove me back to this site in particular rather than finding a different one...I can't remember if it was a someone or what exactly.
3. If someone introduced you to LJ, is s/he still on your friends list?
Yes I'm still on my own f'list ;-)
4. Have you introduced anyone to LJ?
Well...I was in college and living in the dorms when I started this stuff. I convinced LOTS of friends in the dorms (and online) to start online journals (I'm pretty positive I was the first). Many of them still have them, and many others have fizzled out with life. I think so long as my good friends continue to keep them I will (and probably even after that, too...online journalling has just become something I do...something that's me), because I'm terrible at keeping in touch with people via email and snail email and phone, and so this is a very wonderful way to stay in tune with their day-to-day lives (because just emails and letters are so hard...it's like a five-minute version of a movie). Also, the phone is difficult, because if you happen to have twenty people that you don't live anywhere even remotely near anymore, but you still want to keep in constant contact with them, you could spend literally hours per day on the phone, and that's just not practical...plus I hate the phone. There are very very few people I can spend long periods on the phone with.
5. Is your LJ public or friends only, and why?
It's a little bit of everything. I have a lot of public entries, but I also have TONS of FO entries. I also make significant use of filters. I talk about so much in here, and some of it is sensitive stuff that I don't want there to be even a hint of a risk of anything being seen there that might get me in trouble with work, so I have various levels of filters.
chasmine171. How long ago did you join LJ?
Technically, I started an account in 2000 when looking around for an online journalling site. I also found OpenDiary around that time and liked the format MUCH better (I was young, I was too impatient to play around and discover all the amazingness that is LJ at the time), so I never used my LJ account. The first LJ account I actually started using lists 1/31/2002 as its creation date, and that was my first entry in it.
2. How did you find out about LJ?
Just searching on Yahoo! (this was back before I started Googling everything ;-)) for online journal sites. I'm not really sure what drove me back to this site in particular rather than finding a different one...I can't remember if it was a someone or what exactly.
3. If someone introduced you to LJ, is s/he still on your friends list?
Yes I'm still on my own f'list ;-)
4. Have you introduced anyone to LJ?
Well...I was in college and living in the dorms when I started this stuff. I convinced LOTS of friends in the dorms (and online) to start online journals (I'm pretty positive I was the first). Many of them still have them, and many others have fizzled out with life. I think so long as my good friends continue to keep them I will (and probably even after that, too...online journalling has just become something I do...something that's me), because I'm terrible at keeping in touch with people via email and snail email and phone, and so this is a very wonderful way to stay in tune with their day-to-day lives (because just emails and letters are so hard...it's like a five-minute version of a movie). Also, the phone is difficult, because if you happen to have twenty people that you don't live anywhere even remotely near anymore, but you still want to keep in constant contact with them, you could spend literally hours per day on the phone, and that's just not practical...plus I hate the phone. There are very very few people I can spend long periods on the phone with.
5. Is your LJ public or friends only, and why?
It's a little bit of everything. I have a lot of public entries, but I also have TONS of FO entries. I also make significant use of filters. I talk about so much in here, and some of it is sensitive stuff that I don't want there to be even a hint of a risk of anything being seen there that might get me in trouble with work, so I have various levels of filters.
