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[sanpaku_backup]

Just finished looking at the enormous mass of communities on this site. Holy mackerel. A whole 'nother void of gazillions of people. I had no idea when I started doing this that there were so many people on it.

Had a pretty OK weekend. Adam came over for dinner and then spent a few hours trying to teach us Bridge. They are all bridge maniacs at work. It is an odd thing to be obsessed with, but it is something interesting. I have tried practicing for a while. I doubt I'll ever really get the hang of it because I just don't see how people keep in mind all of the cards that have been played. There's so much to keep track of. But in the meantime it is something to do, and it's kind of social, so maybe it is worth pursuing.

Shavuous was nice. Cheesecake. Read lots of stuff. At 2 in the morning Scholem on the Kabbalah can be pretty hair-raising. Tried out Saul's niggun for haftorah on Tuesday, for the first time, and some people really noticed. It's a haunting melody. I like the "we are desert tribesmen" aspects of Judaism the best.

More later.

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[flw.livejournal.com]

I don't even know how to look at communities. I hate it when people know how to do things that I don't know how to do.

By the third paragraph, I was hopelessly lost. I don't think the keyboard has keys for some of the words you were trying to type.

ishkabibble

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

I figured it out by looking at someone's profile and then seeing "community" in the profile. Actually it's the new girl who's on your "friends" list. Who are these people anyway? How do you make "friends" with them? See, there are still things I don't know how to do.

Re: ishkabibble

[flw.livejournal.com]

Go to your own profile. Or at any point, "Log in". In fact, just log in. Then go to the ellipses after the Friends link. The ellipses itself is a separate link. Hell, you know how to make friends. Yo are probably wondering how I got this person as a "friend" on my page. Well, what I do is read the "friend" pages of my friends and if I like someone, I add them as my friend. Then, perhaps they'll notice that I am on their Friend page and reciprocate.

The alternative is to have a lot of real world friends who are doing this. That's why all the 19 year olds who are doing this have a gazillion friends ... because they are doing it during school in all likelihood. Another alternative is to be a 22 year old girl who doesn't mind showering on the internet. Those people have alot of friends.

Re: ishkabibble

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

So you choose LJ "friends" on the basis of liking their pages rather than knowing them in any capacity? Like "verbminx". I thought to begin with you either knew people or they lived in Pittsburgh or something.

Re: "Friends"

[flw.livejournal.com]

So you choose LJ "friends" on the basis of liking their pages rather than knowing them in any capacity?

Well, ideally, you get to know a person pretty well after reading their journal, or at least one would hope that would be the case. And I think liking what someone wrote is enough reason to want to follow their writings on a week by week or so basis.

I think your quarrel is with the word "Friends". They don't have to actually be close and intimate to be a livejournal friend. Perhaps a more appropriate phrase would be, "People whose journals I am watching". For instance, if you go to your friends page, I think I am the only one on it.

All the "Friends" feature really does is give you a place to watch people whose journals interest you. They just chose the word "Friend" to confuse you.

I thought to begin with you either knew people or they lived in Pittsburgh or something.

That's a good way to begin, I suppose.
That's how I began with mamarama. Then you then julesfacks. Then every once in a while I add a bunch of people who interest me, most of whom I drop.

Let me tell you, though, here's one thing you should do:

Lessen the number of default entries on your page, because you are "long-winded" compared to many livejournal users. I would like LJ better if everyone had this set to 10 entries on the long side. I think you should bring yours down to six or eight (like me).

But how do you do it?

After logging in, click on "Modify Journal" in the right hand column.

way down at the bottom of the screen that comes up is a text area called:

Style Overrides

enter the following two little commands:

LASTN_OPT_ITEMS=>6
FRIENDS_OPT_ITEMS=>6

These will change your main page and friends page from having 20 entries (forever to load) to just having six. I think I amgoing to change my friends to 10 now, in fact.