Mr. Cranky
May. 24th, 2004 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechHaving nothing more interesting to post about, I'm going to list my Top Three Things I Hate About LJ:
Number One: Calling it a "Friends List". I hate that. Why can't they call it a "Contact List" or something less personal? I thought the joke of calling it a "Stalking List" was funnier and more accurate. Calling it a "Friend" list turns the casual adding and deleting of people into a traumatic/guilt-ridden event. Some of the people on my lists are actual friends: people I actively know and trust and associate with (ie, -friends-). Some are people I find interesting and enjoy reading their interesting posts (potential friends maybe). Some are just good writers or creatively fascinating. I've stopped adding people just because they add me: I'm not interested in a popularity contest or counting coup. And I've deleted people because I have discovered little in common with them or for reason's #2 or #3. Deleting you doesn't mean I don't like you any more than adding you means I love you.
Number Two: Animated icons. I find some of them very clever and amusing...for the first ten seconds. Most are just pointless (just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD). I often leave a LJ window open on my screen and animated icons (especially those with garish, extreme animation) are about as enjoyable as having a fly preen itself there. I wish there was a way to freeze the screen so they just stop.
Numbah Three! Oblique posts. Hate 'em. "I'm working on a totally kewl, super-great costume but it's SEKRIT!" or "Something VERY SIGNIFICANT will happen today...but I can't talk about it" (and then they never explain later) or "!!!!!111!!! OMFG!!! !!!" and the like. Hate'em hate'em hate'em. I also hate "We're having a party (tee-hee) and [in-joke, in-joke, in-joke]!!! Hehehe!" where only people they are currently IM'ing or ICQ'ing have ANY idea what's going on. What's the point?!? You can do anything you want to in your journal...but I don't have to see it on my scroll! Dink!
A somewhat minor quibble (relative to the above) involves not knowing when to cut. If a post is going to take up the better part of a screen page or more, *please* cut it! And give the cut tag a title that hints at what the content is! Here's a helpful hint: instead of just using "lj-cut" use this instead: "lj-cut text="Cut off here". Thanks!
Number One: Calling it a "Friends List". I hate that. Why can't they call it a "Contact List" or something less personal? I thought the joke of calling it a "Stalking List" was funnier and more accurate. Calling it a "Friend" list turns the casual adding and deleting of people into a traumatic/guilt-ridden event. Some of the people on my lists are actual friends: people I actively know and trust and associate with (ie, -friends-). Some are people I find interesting and enjoy reading their interesting posts (potential friends maybe). Some are just good writers or creatively fascinating. I've stopped adding people just because they add me: I'm not interested in a popularity contest or counting coup. And I've deleted people because I have discovered little in common with them or for reason's #2 or #3. Deleting you doesn't mean I don't like you any more than adding you means I love you.
Number Two: Animated icons. I find some of them very clever and amusing...for the first ten seconds. Most are just pointless (just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD). I often leave a LJ window open on my screen and animated icons (especially those with garish, extreme animation) are about as enjoyable as having a fly preen itself there. I wish there was a way to freeze the screen so they just stop.
Numbah Three! Oblique posts. Hate 'em. "I'm working on a totally kewl, super-great costume but it's SEKRIT!" or "Something VERY SIGNIFICANT will happen today...but I can't talk about it" (and then they never explain later) or "!!!!!111!!! OMFG!!! !!!" and the like. Hate'em hate'em hate'em. I also hate "We're having a party (tee-hee) and [in-joke, in-joke, in-joke]!!! Hehehe!" where only people they are currently IM'ing or ICQ'ing have ANY idea what's going on. What's the point?!? You can do anything you want to in your journal...but I don't have to see it on my scroll! Dink!
A somewhat minor quibble (relative to the above) involves not knowing when to cut. If a post is going to take up the better part of a screen page or more, *please* cut it! And give the cut tag a title that hints at what the content is! Here's a helpful hint: instead of just using "lj-cut" use this instead: "lj-cut text="Cut off here". Thanks!
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Date: 2004-05-24 09:01 pm (UTC)::Grins:: Or, do the thing with the thing and make it play once.
And I generally add people to my "friends" (I'm not a fan of that either, I wish we could change it like we can change everything else on the journal part) so they can read my private posts, if they are unintresting people, or we have nothing in common, I delete. Nothing personal, just conserving time/space.