LJ question

[ksmith]

Is there a reason to Friend yourself? I've noticed that some folks have done that.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

Because I like me. :-)

Umm, no. Because if I see my post scroll by as I go through my list, I can go ahead and read/reply to the messages in the course of my lj pass.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

So it simply combines Recent Entries and Friends into a single list for reading?

Maybe I should just try it and see what happens. Probably wind up having to deal with a doppelganger or something...

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Yes, it means that you'll see your postings intermingled with those of your friends, all in whatever chronological order your style displays. Mine is set up that way and I like it.

[hittite.livejournal.com]

Yup, there is one. That way, you can see your own "posts" in the Friends view, hence you can see it easier if someone has responded to your posts etc. When I first started with LJ, I had the same question, and that was the answer I was given.

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

I had no idea you could!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Sounds very New Agey to me. I Friend myself. I heart myself.

It's Friday.

I did it. It's nice to be able to read everything in one fell swoop, but sometimes if you get a lot of looooong feeds with no lj-cut, it's easier to go back to Recent Entries.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

The other handy thing I've done is to split everyone up into friends groups so I don't have to read everyone's posts in one go. Every fifteen people or so, I start another group and add the new friends to it.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

My Friends group is still manageable all in one go, which is one point in favor of keeping it small. Of course, that means I miss a lot...

I don't know how folks with 100s of Friends keep up, I really don't.