Wednesday morning.

[azurelunatic]

This lawyer is no longer an inhabitant of reality. One way or another, he needs to re-join it or completely get out of it.

Point to rant on somewhat later: LJ is technically a blogging/content site, not a social networking site; this is why people keep wanting to get LJ to implement a remove friends thing and LJ is probably never going to do it. Places like MySpace, which are for saying who your friends are and aren't, have to have things like that. Places like LJ, though they're very similar in a lot of functions, are all about the content, and while it's called "friends", you'd better not think that anyone who wants to read you has to want to be your friend. If they're not compatible with you friend-wise, assume they want to read you, unless they're an obvious troll, in which case you can ban them.

More Duck Penis. Just when you thought the 2001-ish research by McCracken was an old meme, it pops up in the news again. Now with more researchers!

http://www.kiva.org/

http://xkcd.com/c256.html

hcolleen is beating me with a pool noodle because I am plotting.

Comments

[the-cynic.livejournal.com]

Sadly, he must have been such a poor lawyer that he's a judge (http://oah.dc.gov/oah/cwp/view,A,3,Q,604474.asp).

[azurelunatic]

*shudder*

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

I am just deeply disappointed about the WAY LJ chose to acknowledge that serial adding and malicious friending is a problem on the site, as you know.

It does NOTHING but fuck up RPG mods. Any serial adder with 5-6 days' worth of patience can still add 1000 and they will all be stuck with him or her. Those of us who have been friended by serial adders or who'd like to get rid of the 250 abandoned journals on our friends-of list can't do it. I know one person who's had 7 LJs and friended me on all of them and only uses one. Another who changes LJs like underwear because her creepy babydaddy and his creepy friends keep finding her. I keep hearing from people how wankas say I'm a pathetic loser because there's several hundred names' worth of difference between my friends and friends-of list, despite the fact that the difference on each side is made up of journals that nobody's home in any more and communities I belong to but don't have on my flist because I don't want them popping up on my screen at work.

[wibbble]

Surely you're more of a 'pathetic loser' if you have lots of friends but no friends-of?

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

When I first signed onto LJ almost two years ago, I felt somewhat intimidated by the fact that it's unconditionally called "friending." Because of that, I was reluctant for a long time to add people whom I didn't know but whose journals made for interesting reading.

Even today, I'm still edgy about adding peple (even those who already know me and aren't -- hopefully, LOL -- weirded out by me XD), unless I have a way to contact them first to warn them beforehand. ;) I KNOW that's not necessary, but... ^^;;

[azurelunatic]

And you're Support, too!

It would be really nice to switch over to reads/read by. I have no particular attachment to the phrasing "friends", though it's worked its way into the site jargon and would be near-impossible to extract.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I'd feel a lot better about the way LJ handles friending if it weren't called "friending". I am not a friend of refinancing or dildobucket, even though they have "friended" me.

I've grown used to the terminology, but it is understandably unsettling for newbies.

[azurelunatic]

I think we have a few serial adders in common -- I'm pretty sure the bucket added me. It's very nice that banning will take someone off your profile now, though you're still on theirs.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I need to get around to banning a few people. They've never tried commenting, so I haven't bothered.

[azurelunatic]

I think that's one of the things I like best about the classic serial adder: the lack of comment.