I do a quick scroll, tabbing, as I go along, everything I might want to respond to shortly. Firefox is love.
Yeah--del.icio.us is great for quick and organized bookmarking, but I usually respond pretty quickly to the posts of interest on the flist so I don't actually want to bookmark them. I need to get Firefox. I didn't know it had tabs. My brother always said it was a better browser--everyone always said it's a better browser than IE--but I never saw why before.
It makes me feel vaguely dishonest
Apparently a lot of people feel this way. I don't get it. I guess because I don't feel like being on someone's flist means that person is reading me...so I have no compunction about not reading some people on my own list some of the time.
I don't post a lot of intimate airings of my mental state or daily life, period -- my laundry is not for the world to see --
Me neither. But I was also going to say I didn't say many personal things at all, and then I realized I do sometimes, and then I realized even the things I think aren't personal at all kind of are. I think I try too hard sometimes to separate my personal/private issues from the world around me, because I don't want to share or worse, because I think other people don't want to know (worse because it makes me feel slightly conformist).
I guess one of my issues is that I feel a connection to almost everyone on my flist through our mutual fannishness, and even the people I consider real "friends" on lj are people with whom I still haven't actually shared much personal information--I just like talking to them about fannish stuff or meta or writing and feel a connection to them in that sense. And I guess my other issue is that most of my RL friends are people with whom I feel like I can't talk about things near and dear to my heart, like Buffy or writing or even abstract philosophically stuff like I can with some people I've met online. Omg, I'm whining. I think I try too hard to categorize and define things like friendship, which often defy definition.
I want to teach in a few years, though, so I may at some point decide it prudent to lock the photos and remove all markers that, if you're paying attention over time, indicate where I am and why.
Ha, yeah I can see that. Would've seriously freaked me to find my teachers on lj. What are you thinking about teaching, English? At university?
no subject
Yeah--del.icio.us is great for quick and organized bookmarking, but I usually respond pretty quickly to the posts of interest on the flist so I don't actually want to bookmark them. I need to get Firefox. I didn't know it had tabs. My brother always said it was a better browser--everyone always said it's a better browser than IE--but I never saw why before.
It makes me feel vaguely dishonest
Apparently a lot of people feel this way. I don't get it. I guess because I don't feel like being on someone's flist means that person is reading me...so I have no compunction about not reading some people on my own list some of the time.
I don't post a lot of intimate airings of my mental state or daily life, period -- my laundry is not for the world to see --
Me neither. But I was also going to say I didn't say many personal things at all, and then I realized I do sometimes, and then I realized even the things I think aren't personal at all kind of are. I think I try too hard sometimes to separate my personal/private issues from the world around me, because I don't want to share or worse, because I think other people don't want to know (worse because it makes me feel slightly conformist).
I guess one of my issues is that I feel a connection to almost everyone on my flist through our mutual fannishness, and even the people I consider real "friends" on lj are people with whom I still haven't actually shared much personal information--I just like talking to them about fannish stuff or meta or writing and feel a connection to them in that sense. And I guess my other issue is that most of my RL friends are people with whom I feel like I can't talk about things near and dear to my heart, like Buffy or writing or even abstract philosophically stuff like I can with some people I've met online. Omg, I'm whining. I think I try too hard to categorize and define things like friendship, which often defy definition.
I want to teach in a few years, though, so I may at some point decide it prudent to lock the photos and remove all markers that, if you're paying attention over time, indicate where I am and why.
Ha, yeah I can see that. Would've seriously freaked me to find my teachers on lj. What are you thinking about teaching, English? At university?