Confession Time Again
Mar. 19th, 2005 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI currently have 222 people on my friends list, 34 communities and 58 syndicated feeds.
There is no way on Earth that I can possibly read all of that every day.
So I don't.
Instead I have an 'Important' friends list, a 'People' friends list and a 'MorePeople' friends list.
On the 'important' list are the people I am in contact with on a regular basis and therefore have to keep up with, and those people who regularly post things I find excrutiatingly interesting (computer talk, thoughts on the universe, rants about comic characters - what I think of as 'content' rather than 'soap opera'). This is my first port of call when I hit LJ (along with my comic friends list, of course), because if I failed to notice that someone on this list broke up with their long-term boyfriend then I'd get in trouble (and hey - they might have posted a long screed about why aquaman sucks).
On the 'People' list are people who I find interesting enough to read their soap opera, or people who occasionally post interesting things, or are friends at one remove, or otherwise interesting, but the world wouldn't end if I wasn't up to date with their lives. Ths gets read once a day, most of the time, but it's not so high priority.
On the 'MorePeople' list are people who I added back because they looked kinda interesting, but actually turned out to not be _that_ interesting. Or people I added back when the world was fresh and shiny and new and I only had two people on my friends list, so adding a third person was A Cool Thing To Do. And I have a sense of nostalgia about them, or don't want to offend them, or am just too busy to read everyone, so someone has to get moved down for a bit. This list gets flicked through once a week or so, if I'm bored.
Now, none of these are permanent filings - people get shuffled around on a semi-regular basis - I'll realise that I look forward to someone's posts, so they get moved to Important. Or I realise that someone's posted nothing but quizzes for three weeks, so they get moved to MorePeople. I'm not saying who's where, because this is a coping strategy, not a competition - you're all lovely people, and the fact that I have limited time has no bearing on your global ranking in the kewlness stakes.
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There is no way on Earth that I can possibly read all of that every day.
So I don't.
Instead I have an 'Important' friends list, a 'People' friends list and a 'MorePeople' friends list.
On the 'important' list are the people I am in contact with on a regular basis and therefore have to keep up with, and those people who regularly post things I find excrutiatingly interesting (computer talk, thoughts on the universe, rants about comic characters - what I think of as 'content' rather than 'soap opera'). This is my first port of call when I hit LJ (along with my comic friends list, of course), because if I failed to notice that someone on this list broke up with their long-term boyfriend then I'd get in trouble (and hey - they might have posted a long screed about why aquaman sucks).
On the 'People' list are people who I find interesting enough to read their soap opera, or people who occasionally post interesting things, or are friends at one remove, or otherwise interesting, but the world wouldn't end if I wasn't up to date with their lives. Ths gets read once a day, most of the time, but it's not so high priority.
On the 'MorePeople' list are people who I added back because they looked kinda interesting, but actually turned out to not be _that_ interesting. Or people I added back when the world was fresh and shiny and new and I only had two people on my friends list, so adding a third person was A Cool Thing To Do. And I have a sense of nostalgia about them, or don't want to offend them, or am just too busy to read everyone, so someone has to get moved down for a bit. This list gets flicked through once a week or so, if I'm bored.
Now, none of these are permanent filings - people get shuffled around on a semi-regular basis - I'll realise that I look forward to someone's posts, so they get moved to Important. Or I realise that someone's posted nothing but quizzes for three weeks, so they get moved to MorePeople. I'm not saying who's where, because this is a coping strategy, not a competition - you're all lovely people, and the fact that I have limited time has no bearing on your global ranking in the kewlness stakes.
[Poll #457482]
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Date: 2005-03-19 04:29 pm (UTC)Depending how busy I am, I usually scan my friend's list for people first, skipping the longer posts; then if time allows I'll go read the longer posts, then if I still have time I'll read through the various feeds I subscribe to.