I think they’re kinda neat provided they come with no expectations. They fulfill mild stalker-like tendancies. [is so-and-so still obsessive about __? yup!] They provide time killers. There are some genuinely amusing people out there. That’s good too.
I pondered recently, however, that were I to have a useful one, I’d have to work out a way to be entirely anonymous. I’m a bit too paranoid for it to work otherwise.
I’ve resisted the temptation of starting a LJ, though I got a user id ages ago, mainly to occasionally post in friends’ journals (which I’ve almost never done anyway). I know of a number of people who were burned by posting things they later regretted, and given my tendency to spill guts on occasion, I didn’t want to repeat the mistake. Besides, I don’t think anyone really gives a shit about my day to day crap. I very occasionally read other dopers journals, but it’s very infrequent - maybe once every 3 months.
And I thought kittens were evil (with those razor sharp claw and the tendancy to use them) and puppies were fuzzy. I love 'em both, though.
Who says puppies can’t be fluffy?
I post in mine (raybrandle, if anyone was wondering) semi-regularly.
I have 2 dopers on my friends list… Welfy, who no longer posts and writes a prodigous amount and someone whose SD name I can no longer remember. She’s an ER vet tech. I think her name was Falc, or something along those lines.
The rest of my LJ friends are folks who I know IRL.
.delurking again after a long time away from these boards…
I wish I could have a live journal, they look really cool-but I don’t know anyone who has one, so I can’t have one! And even if I wanted to pay for one I couldn’t (I have a stupid provincial uk credit card that no one in north america has ever heard of), yeah I know I am full of whining and excuses!
So I have one at diary land instead. It is lame compared to LJ though, but it is the best I can do. here it is if you care!-http://sapphire997.diaryland.com/animepurty.html
anyone know of any good lj clones that you can get without knowing someone who has an account already? I have tried some of the links in this thread and Google, but I don’t seem to have found one that is quite right yet.
sigh it isn’t life or death but I’m just annoyed that some stupid trolls (so I gather) has made it impossible for me (or anyone else who doesn’t know anybody on there already) to have a lj! Stupid stupid trolls!!! :mad: (okay I’ll pick up the pieces and get on with my life now snifff)
Infectious Lass, do you need a LiveJournal code? I have a paid account and I think I can generate them (not sure how many I get.)
I write in my journal because I enjoy writing, it keeps me in practice, and for some bizarre reason, people like reading it. Whenever I’ve lapsed in writing for a few days I always get e-mails from people wanting to know what happened and why I haven’t updated. Go figure.
I don’t allow comments or posting in my journal though, and I don’t do quizzes or really link around, so it’s more of a true journal (not so much a “blog.”)
jinwicked if you could get a livejournal code for me and if it is not too much trouble, I would be very grateful! (and I would be a friend for life and follow you around and fetch your slippers…errrr maybe not, that might be annoying! 
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I don’t think I would have comments on my lj if I had one, I don’t know…maybe I would, something about the idea of trying to prove myself as a half way interesting writer of er…‘stuff’ appeals to me.
Reading some of the other diaries on Diaryland reveals a whole slew of angst ridden teenagers who mope about their failed infatuations and love affairs like they were the only people in history to have it happen to them…oh and that isn’t mentioning the ones who write LiKe ThIS ALl tHE FlIppInG TimE. Who started that? Really? Please tell me so I can go round and slap that person with a WeT CABbaGE, or something!
Infectious Lass, if jinwicked can’t get you an LJ code, email me. I have some left.
I never had an LJ, but I had Diaryland way back when, and I loved it. I think LJ has just as many “angst ridden teenagers” as Diaryland does – or at least as many as it did when I was there.
Does anybody remember Scribble? For awhile everyone was using the Oh, Hello Media projects (Scribble was put out by Oh, Hello) and they all sucked. Scribble and GBook spent more time down than up. It was incredibly aggravating to go read your friends’ journals, and every single one was down 90% of the time.
Infectious Lass, you don’t have an email address posted, so here you go: 8cjpgaabbqbw . I hope no one snatches it before you get to it.
Thanks Jinwicked! I hope so too! (I should put my email up bad me:()
0h and thanks too Cessandra!
I have now set up my lj account! Although it was heck itself setting up the password. (you can’t use a dictionary word? jeepers how am I supposed to remember it? Don’t worry I wrote it down!)
Many thanks, Jinwicked and thankyou too Cessandra for the kind offer.
Whhheeee! now let us see if I can work this out…
And you know I love the angst ridden teenagers really! 
I really should link to this more in journal threads since it always comes up:
sorry to monopolize the thread-(having been posting at another mb lately that allows you to edit your posts I really miss that feature here 'tho I understand why it isn’t practical to have it here still…sigh)
If anyone wants to see it my new lj is at http://www.livejournal.com/users/sapphire_bloo/ (there actually isn’t anything there yet but I guess there will be!)
Though if you don’t (as you probably don’t) please disregard this message! thankyou.
Thanks again jinwicked 
No problemo.
(BTW, if anyone wants to hear me talking, there’s an mp3 on my LiveJournal right now of me reading the story I wrote. :))
i love my livejournal (agentfroot, by the way)! i’m a writer, so of course i have to go on almost daily and type to my heart’s content. occasionally a quiz finds its way in, but i don’t compulsively post results unless i find them amusing.
I’ve never browsed Livejournal or anyone’s for that matter.
I have read Letters to Penthouse.
If there is comedy like that in there, I’m in.
However, the link to the code thingy ( I’m such a techno dork it isn’t even funny) was taken.
Brother…Sister…can you spare a code?
Y’know, the entire fund raising idea of a community based refer a friend or pay for the admission is something that might be a good way for the Chicago Reader to be able to keep the boards running smoothing and setting out hamster traps.
Hmmmmm
Not meaning to hijack, but I just wanted to say, jinwicked, that I like your writing style.
Writing styles notwithstanding, I tried keeping a Live Journal, but the fact that I can’t type well and that I’m usually more introspective privately helped to hasten its demise. Perhaps I’ll write in it again, but just expressing my thoughts here seems to do it for me right now.
I had one briefly at a friends suggestion… I ended up deleting it and copying it to my computer.
It just made me uncomfortable (and no, I didn’t have anything particularly salacious in there)…just a combo of feeling like it’s incredibly tacky to keep the minutae of your life online as if people care (I know some people care, but WASP habits die hard.), and feeling uncomfortable at the idea of total strangers reading the stuff that wasn’t just minutae (great thoughts, etc)
Plus peoples comments really weirded me out…not that they were weird (nice, mostly), but the idea of people browsing around…I don’t know.
I have privacy issues
There will be a new one tomorrow.