More weird people

[andysocial]

Been surfing the "random users" feature for a few minutes, trying to find ideas for new LJ Styles (rather unproductive at that task). There are a surprising number of folks that have journals with absolutely NO public entries. Um, why bother? Just use email or something. :-)

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[leora.livejournal.com]

I know people who have livejournals so that other people can list them as friends and they can read the friends-only posts. They themselves have no interest in keeping a journal.

Actually...

[andysocial]

I think folks with completely empty journals are more understandable than what I (obviously unclearly) was referring to. If you go to the Calendar view, you can see that folks have posted entries, even if the entries are private or friends-only. So, there are several journals out there that are entirely friends-only, with not a single public post, but dozens of private ones.

I realize that everyone has their own way of doing things, but it just seems odd to me to have a website that is so protected that only people who already know you can see it. I suppose password-protected sites are equivalent, but it just struck me as an odd thing to see on LJ.

Re: Actually...

[leora.livejournal.com]

I suppose that is a bit odd. I could imagine using livejournal that way, but I have no interest in it. All of my posts are public. I could imagine putting some friends-only posts, but it's just not what I want. But I guess some people just want the convenience of a site already designed with tools for keeping a journal, rather than a public journal environment. And well, my most current web site is setup with bunches of password-protected sections. So I guess I can't find that ~too~ odd.