The Random
Sep. 4th, 2006 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianEvery so often, I wind up checking my LJ 'Friend Of' list. Why? Because ... well, sometimes there is random friendage, and they don't all tell me they're doing it. Now, please keep in mind that I do not mind this. If I minded this, I would not have a public journal. But sometimes really neat people randomly friend me and don't tell me about it, and if I don't look, I may miss out on someone really cool. So I check.
Today, I found three. One I think was Russian, and seems to be friending the whole godsdamned world, so I didn't bother. One had only one LJ friend (me) but I friended him back anyway because, what the hell. The third is a friends-only journal and seems to have friended me for no reason, but at least I have some clue where this entity got my name - we're on a few of the same webcomics forums.
A lot of my random friends are people with whom I share communities.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fan_dancer, I think, friended me after encountering me on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bad_rpers_suck. nadriel was ... I think through the Something Positive community. dis_connection appears to be someone from the NaNoWriMo communities. bibliogirl, and a few others, I met on customers_suck. Overall, my random friendings seem to be half community-based and half "friend of friend" - mostly through nadriel. A couple, though, are a total mystery: live4lyfe, par example.
It does make me wonder, though: why? I mean, unless there was a specific comment or post that made some of these people think, "Hmm, she sounds interesting", the random frienders would have had to seek me out, read my journal and decided to friend me. And me being me, I am dying to know why. I mean, I just write this thing; I have no true perspective on how interesting it may or may not be - mostly it's good venting space and a way of getting information and such to my far-flung friends in the US and such so I don't wind up spending all my time on IM answering a simple 'How are you?'.
So, those of you who have randomly friended me, either recently or way back when, I'd really appreciate knowing why. What drew you to this journal? Why do you stay friended? What's the draw? I'm not writing for an audience here, but I'm dreadfully curious.
Today, I found three. One I think was Russian, and seems to be friending the whole godsdamned world, so I didn't bother. One had only one LJ friend (me) but I friended him back anyway because, what the hell. The third is a friends-only journal and seems to have friended me for no reason, but at least I have some clue where this entity got my name - we're on a few of the same webcomics forums.
A lot of my random friends are people with whom I share communities.
fan_dancer, I think, friended me after encountering me on bad_rpers_suck. nadriel was ... I think through the Something Positive community. dis_connection appears to be someone from the NaNoWriMo communities. bibliogirl, and a few others, I met on customers_suck. Overall, my random friendings seem to be half community-based and half "friend of friend" - mostly through nadriel. A couple, though, are a total mystery: live4lyfe, par example.It does make me wonder, though: why? I mean, unless there was a specific comment or post that made some of these people think, "Hmm, she sounds interesting", the random frienders would have had to seek me out, read my journal and decided to friend me. And me being me, I am dying to know why. I mean, I just write this thing; I have no true perspective on how interesting it may or may not be - mostly it's good venting space and a way of getting information and such to my far-flung friends in the US and such so I don't wind up spending all my time on IM answering a simple 'How are you?'.
So, those of you who have randomly friended me, either recently or way back when, I'd really appreciate knowing why. What drew you to this journal? Why do you stay friended? What's the draw? I'm not writing for an audience here, but I'm dreadfully curious.