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Everybody's LJ

topic posted Fri, October 3, 2003 - 2:26 PM by  offlineStarchy
Okay, there are currently 147 members of this tribe, but so far nothing much going on here except for a few people posting new threads about their own journals. If all 147 of us do just that... well... would anyone care?

So I'm starting a thread here for people to not just post links to their journals, but to hopefully say a little something about them. It's great that you have an LJ, but why would I want to check it out? There are as many different ways to use LJ as there are LJ users. How do you use yours?

By way of example:

My journal: starchy.livejournal.com

What's there: I post raw writing (mostly fiction) and works in progress, various contemplations of Life In General(tm), your vaguely standard sorts of web-flotsom and web-jetsom, the occasional political rant, and absolutely no quizzes or polls. I'm currently re-posting my travel diaries from Europe, written a few years back, one episode per day.

So, who's next?
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  • aimee
    aimee
    offline 23

    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Fri, October 3, 2003 - 4:15 PM
    ok i'll go.

    fleagirl.livejournal.com/

    i mostly use it as a way to keep in touch with, give and get support from mamafriends of mine scattered about the globe. so it's often talking about my kid, being a single mom, life and whatnot. also, lots of those annoying memes cause they're good ways to take a wee break from work. i can see you shall all be clamoring to get into my friendslist :) my political or social rants are often limited to a handful of snarky lines about whatever is eating away at me that day.
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  • lila
    lila
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    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Sun, October 5, 2003 - 5:45 PM
    i use mine primarily as a personal journal, not particularly geared towards an audience. i make a fair percentage of private posts. it's probably not of any interest to anyone who doesn't know me.
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  • Patti
    Patti
    offline 171

    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Sun, October 5, 2003 - 11:08 PM
    I set up my journal originally to provide writing practice-- I have a novel in progress (though it's been badly neglected for a few months), and I wanted somewhere that I could write short but vivid descriptions of things I saw in my daily life.

    Now I use it for that purpose, as well as a mechanism to keep in touch with people I don't see very often.

    I occasionally use it to provoke discussion. Right now the topic is the Ahnold Challenge-- say something positive about Hitler.

    (Feel free to contribute if you'd like. It's at whipartist.livejournal.com)
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  • Yen
    Yen
    offline 109

    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Mon, October 6, 2003 - 12:38 AM
    talaitha.livejournal.com

    My journal is mostly for me.
    It's not geared towards an audience.
    As such, while extrapolating on random thoughts, sundry things, or simply regurgitating my days, the imagery I use can be a mix-mash of the follwoing:
    a] proseyish
    b] ambiguous
    c] cryptic
    d] hella boring
    e] hella pretty

    Memes + quizzes make me itchy. I never post results.
    And about 50% of my posts are friend's only.
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  • Re: Everybody's LJ

    Mon, October 6, 2003 - 9:38 AM
    My journal is generally a personal one, tending towards allowing me to vent, or occasionally brag about stuff in my life. I also have been known to post stray thoughts that I feel must be propogated, and the results of the occasional meme or quiz that I like.

    I don't think I've posted a friends-only post yet.

    My LJ: http://tsgeisel.livejournal.com.
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    • Meow
      Meow
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      Re: Everybody's LJ

      Tue, October 7, 2003 - 9:11 AM
      My LJ has my musings on life. It also has bits and pieces or poetry. I try to post most stuff about my work to my yahoo groups, so most of the LJ is just personal mental musings over 42 :) It is full of colorful descriptions of the current contents of my head; musings about soulmates, conversational equals, heartbreak and more. I don't update it all that often, I have too many other things I am keeping up with. I leave everything public though, and have a link to it from my modeling portfolio site. I utilize it as a tool to let people get inside my head, look around a little, and then decide if they wanna try and hang some art of the walls. It gives me a place to be as funky and elaborate as I want with my speech patterns, and since it is a journal primarily meant for me, no one can complain about my archaic thoughts and speech. :) I love it :) Mine is at myessenseislove.livejournal.com
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  • Aldon
    Aldon
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    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Fri, October 10, 2003 - 12:33 PM
    My livejournal: aldon.livejournal.com

    Mostly personal stuff; minor comments about politics and life in general. I use it a lot to keep in touch with friends from MOOs, the Howard Dean campaign, and family.

    Ideally, I would like to have it be more social commentary, but I just haven't really gotten there.
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    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Sat, October 11, 2003 - 12:57 AM
    roisnoir.livejournal.com/

    My LJ is for me, of course. Though I also use it to keep my family updated as to what's going on in my life, since we're all really bad about keeping in touch properly.

    I almost never post friends-only (unless it's about work, and then only when it's relating to what I do), and the rest of the time, it's me bubbling over with some emotion or other.

    I love quizzes and memes, though I don't post them unless I really like the results and think it's something my friends would enjoy.
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    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Sun, October 12, 2003 - 9:09 AM
    My journal is located at http://_neonunderworld.livejournal.com , and I rant and rave in my journal. I occasionally post my poetry, short stories, intriguing essays, and my dreams, but those entries are sadly overlooked in favor of my drunken web cam sessions.

    Add me if you wish; I'll add anyone back who adds me. :)
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      Re: Everybody's LJ

      Tue, October 14, 2003 - 3:47 PM
      ...my lj username is: johanan.........i just started it...basic journal entries include daily events as well as some design culture infused ramblings derrived from what i am studying...feel free to add me, i have almost no one...and would like to read others...pieces...
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  • Leo
    Leo
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    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Fri, October 17, 2003 - 11:39 AM
    www.livejournal.com/users/puppytime/

    Well, I use mine in different ways. I go from writing about my daily activities to complaining about my job to musing about random stuff from my childhood to documenting dreams as best I can to writing indirect messages to friends (in some cases LJ is the only way we keep contact now) or people I don't know at all. I indulge in a quiz or two every now and then. I did my first "photo essay" the other day where I think of 5 random words and then use a search engine to search for pictures relating to each word and then I post them. It may not amount to much but I like it.
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    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Mon, October 20, 2003 - 3:03 PM
    I'll never ask "do I look fat in this?" I can be a lot of fun, but I know when to be serious too. I'm far from your average girl, I can spend all afternoon cheering at a volleyball game or wandering the city and then come home and be all dressed up in 20 minutes. I'm really easy going but not to the point where I don't have my own opinions. I love to laugh, and hopefully I can make you laugh until it hurts. It's worth taking a chance to see if I'm what you're looking for.

    www.livejournal.com/users/pseudofamous
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    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Mon, October 20, 2003 - 5:33 PM
    HI my husband & I have our own.. we also keep a journal for our diet progress. My cats have one..(hee!) and I moderate a disney newsgroup related journal..
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  • Ro
    Ro
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    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Mon, October 20, 2003 - 9:21 PM
    I have two LJ's, carocrow.livejournal.com and http://crow_quill.livejournal.com and I moderate the nativeamerican community right now.

    My personal LJ is just the daily drivel, with a semi regular daily quote that is posted public. My other journal, Crow Quill, is for my writing, and will be used next month for NaNoWriMo.

    I'd say, it's easier to check out my interests and my user icons to see what I'm like, or friend me for a while if you like.
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  • heid...
    heidi ho!
    offline 111

    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Tue, October 21, 2003 - 11:28 PM
    I guess my journal's okay...it's got some decent entries sometimes...but not super...here's the link, tell me what you think:

    www.livejournal.com/users/cassleung2002
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    • heid...
      heidi ho!
      offline 111

      Re: Everybody's LJ

      Sat, June 25, 2005 - 8:03 AM
      My last comment on this thread wasn't very pecific, so here goes another:

      My journal is basically a record of anything in my mind at that moment that think is interesting enough to post. Sometimes it's how my day went, sometmes it's weird articles I find online, sometimes it's those funny online quizzes, and sometimes I also post events that are local to me and that I know about.

      Again, my username is cassleung2002. So come check it out.
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  • Emily
    Emily
    offline 54

    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Thu, October 23, 2003 - 1:55 PM
    okay, first of all hello everybody..

    my lj is emilyfurrybear.livejournal.com

    I started it mainly as a way of keeping a record of my thoughts during hectic times and also so my friends could keep up with what I was doing during those times. It just seemed to make so much more sense than repeating yourself over and over and over to just say - hey! you want to find out what's happening? check out my lj!

    It wasn't all good though, as one or two friends were rather shocked at what they read about my antics and kind of dropped out of my life.
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  • Wil
    Wil
    offline 59

    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Thu, October 23, 2003 - 2:21 PM
    Well I use mine mostly to keep in touch with friends I don't see often, and to find other folks in California (preferably southern) who are interested in ropework.

    I post some of my photography there somtimes, of course right now I need to find new webspace to put it in so I can get it back up.

    Funny thing is it originally started in order to keep up with events in The next generation of leather group that meets in Hillcrest

    My journal : www.livejournal.com/users/handcuff_knot/
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    • La C...
      La Contessina
      offline 5

      Re: Everybody's LJ

      Sun, October 26, 2003 - 7:56 AM
      I started mine for a few reasons. I don't know which is the most important:
      I thought it might give me a daily (or so) discipline that would encourage me to write elswewhere.
      My head is full of useless ephemera and I would like to be free of it.
      When I first found the site, I liked being able to view journals randomly and thought maybe someone one day someone might be randomly thrown at mine. I like accident and, to some extent, anonymity.

      It's just text with links, I don't upload any photos. I've been going on about Angelina Jolie again recently, but, no, not that way!

      I'm at sarmoung.livejournal.com
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  • Addy
    Addy
    offline 108

    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Sun, October 26, 2003 - 8:35 AM
    My LJ is the place where I write about my self... thoughts, feelings, impressions... every time I have something to say or show, because that is also the place where I post my art. I do have online galleries for my work but I like to have my images in my journal and this way I will always remember that I made "that" image feeling "that certain way"... :) If I don't feel creative I just write down my thoughts and post a couple of snap shoots (<a href="www.koolkam.com">KoolKam2d</a> is helping me with that ) shots that are usually taken while I'm writing in my journal.

    So I guess my LJ is about the things that I like to share with my friends :)

    Here is the link : www.livejournal.com/users/redragon/

    Addy
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    Re: My LJ

    Mon, October 27, 2003 - 10:52 AM
    Hello folks!

    My LJ is at floof.livejournal.com. It's all for, about and by ME! Hence, "my LJ". ;) But seriously.. I post for myself whether it be to record events, just get something off my chest or to figure out what's going on in my tumbled mind.. it really is all for me. If someone else wants to keep up, I have no problems with that. I never post privately. Once in a blue moon I'll limit a post to certain friends, but that's usually for their privacy, not because I don't want to share.

    I think that's all. :)
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  • Erica
    Erica
    offline 56

    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Mon, October 27, 2003 - 11:37 AM
    www.livejournal.com/users/transformity

    What's there: I have many offline journals that i am constantly writing in, so sometimes i dont post and then i will start posting 7 a day.. I tend to put up quizzes in spurts. I delete older journal entries, printing out the better ones for writing ideas. The writings in my journal are usually stream of conscious rants, thoughts im trying to formulate and thoroughly grasp, and i usually dont edit anything.. I am your typical ranting, procrastinating, perfectionist, extremist, depressed, obsessive-compulsive, who thinks im an individual but all i do is sit around and contemplate plath, salinger, osho, my own "abstract" thoughts, trying not to conform or become anything i see, but still do, fighting in hindsight, realizing awareness is needed, but cant quite stand up to myself but refuse to go down with the boat..
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    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Mon, October 27, 2003 - 7:45 PM
    My journal has become a way to keep in touch with scattered friends. Most of my friends list is comprised of people I actually know, but only get to see a few times a year.

    It has a fair amount of personal ruminations. I rarely make private posts.

    I am always shocked when a total stranger wanders in and adds me as a friend. I don't find myself that particularly interesting.

    http://lucid_livie.livejournal.com.
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  • Chri...
    Christopher
    offline 44

    Re: Everybody's LJ

    Tue, November 4, 2003 - 12:23 PM
    I use mine pretty much solely for posting the Fiction that I never think I'll be able to get published. I keep hoping someone will coem along and steal a story or something so that they'll see the light of day
    I don't do teh daily update thing. Too much work
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