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Mar. 27th, 2004 01:37 pm
Friends Of
Anyone who is interested in this sort of thing has already read the post Brad made weeks ago about the new capabilities of LJ. To whit, if you ban someone they get removed from your "friends of" list. I don't get why this was at all important.
I know there are people with pathological needs to keep their friends and friends of lists perfectly equal. Most of them even acknowledge that it's neurotic behavior. So why is it something that Brad et al felt the need to work with?
Let's get something straight. If someone on LJ lists you as their "friend," it makes no difference to you. The more apt term would be "someone whose journal I enjoy reading and who should feel no requirement to reciprocate," but that's kind of lengthy. Just because I have Lisa Rein on my RSS feed page, I don't expect her to pimp my blog.
I guess it all comes down to the fact that Brad created this thing as a way to update his website easily, and now people are using it as a near-CMS. Terminology that made sense for Brad and his friends seems peculiar when applied to thousands of strangers with interesting posts.
I know there are people with pathological needs to keep their friends and friends of lists perfectly equal. Most of them even acknowledge that it's neurotic behavior. So why is it something that Brad et al felt the need to work with?
Let's get something straight. If someone on LJ lists you as their "friend," it makes no difference to you. The more apt term would be "someone whose journal I enjoy reading and who should feel no requirement to reciprocate," but that's kind of lengthy. Just because I have Lisa Rein on my RSS feed page, I don't expect her to pimp my blog.
I guess it all comes down to the fact that Brad created this thing as a way to update his website easily, and now people are using it as a near-CMS. Terminology that made sense for Brad and his friends seems peculiar when applied to thousands of strangers with interesting posts.
