excuse me. I'm having a moment.

[moonvoice]

I remember when I first started on LiveJournal and I didn't think anyone but Mel and Kim and Glen (because I made him join) would friend me. And it sort of struck me, today, that there are over one hundred different individual people reading this - maybe not all of them reading, I'm sure most are 'scanners', but you know, there's more people reading this than I'm friends with in real life. And of course I'm reading (and alternatively 'scanning') their lives too.

HOLY CRAP!
HOLY MOTHER OF CRAP!

On that note, it's time to go to bed.

Comments

[rainsingingwolf.livejournal.com]

Crazy, isn't it? I realized that a few weeks ago.

I had no intention of this becoming a networking thing, but it ended up being that way. I've 'met' a lot of great people through LJ. I think it's that illusion that refers to "journal" that makes us so comfortable sharing stuff in this media (though filters are awesome). :)

On that note, thank you for sharing your life with me, and thank you for sharing in mine.

[zvezdichka.livejournal.com]

Absolutely true, to be honest, in the beginning when I was new at LJ I used to love "spying" other people's journals-my friends'friends and some of theirs and so on,without no meaning to harm anyone of course, just because of curiousity, there are so many interesting people and stories, when come to realise maybe it is not right, but actually it isnt a restricted area and I have no bad intentions, so I can say it is ok :)

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

Heh--I started mine on a lark back in late 2004 after a couple of fellow LJ-addicts introduced me to it. It has since become the most important networking tool I have.

[le-gris.livejournal.com]

I have a rather teensy friends list (a good thing for me), since I only get the guts to friend people I think I have a serious something in common with. I'm one of those people who usually appears to just randomly friend people ...
But with my social problems joining forums and jumping into a conversation that *anyone* can read on a chat makes me cringe. Livejournals are quasi-personal, and it's more (to me) like getting to know someone quietly and privately like you would in actual conversation. And I can throw my news and public communities in there too. Nice.

[aloiis.livejournal.com]

You took the words outta my mouth. Same story here.

[trypanocorax.livejournal.com]

Hey, this IS real life! I read you, even if I don't always comment. I think you're great!

[e-falki.livejournal.com]

Uh...LJ can be rather incestuous that way. ;-)

And P.S. - *love* your Bowie icon. Totally brilliant!

[crsg.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* I read everything, even if I'm reading it a day or two behind. I guess I'm just one of those lurkers who reads but doesn't comment over-much.

Run-on sentences a go!

[syrenichol.livejournal.com]

the internet makes it easier to be friends... yet at the same times makes it easier to offend due to lack of body talk. :P Eh. Back in 1997 when I started off my website (it was way crap-tastic then) I probably had more friends online... and well in real life too cuz I was in high school and that was a very social atmosphere that kinda forces us to get involved with other people on a regular basis. (yay runons!)

But anyway...
I'm kinda sad now cuz I only have a certain # of people who probably actually read my crap. :P Probably because mine is the same old crap (which I'm apparently the only one not sick and tired of it)... and well yeah... damn realizations. :P

[zeng-li.livejournal.com]

In a way it's sad that I probably have more friended users on LJ than I have local ones who know me even better. I don't socialize too well in-person much of the time, but at least with the internet you can find people with similar interests easier...they can "come to you".

Co-workers are all too often not like-minded in regards to philosophy or metaphysical views / practices, and opening up around them just makes you the office weirdo. On line, I find it's easier to root them out without being looked at oddly.

[end-of-the-mind.livejournal.com]

Hah, yeah. I "know" more people here on LJ than I do in real life. This is further compounded by being so far from home. It depresses me sometimes, so I quit posting xD

We loves you, though!! *wavewave!*

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

It is crazy, and I never intended to use this for networking, and the bulk of my friendlist isn't for networking. Sure I have received many opportunities via my art through LJ, but in the same way that some friends give me opportunities too. It's friendship first, and then networking afterwards.

And thank you in turn. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
I don't think it's depressing.
The internet is progressively the way of the future, and even though many of my relationships aren't 'physical,' that's better for me anyway.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I don't know if it's sad, but I know what you mean. LiveJournal provides global people interested in the same niche things, when you live in a community that isn't even known for its metropolitan views, like Perth, sometimes going online is the best option.

Re: Run-on sentences a go!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
I like what you write! And though I haven't been reading it for 'years', I can't imagine I'll 'get over it' one of these days either. You're a person, not a broken record, after all. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I try and read everything, but I have a lot of prolific writers on my LJ, some who post around 8 times a day (like me I guess *cringe* and when it's you know, stuff to do with their parents or their illness, I don't always jump in and read).

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Hee.
The Labyrinth is made of win!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

:D
I think the same thing!
Plus I love that eye icon, it's creepy and awesome at the same time.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

:)
*hugs*

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

That's the funny thing, if I friended people I only had stuff in common with, the majority of the people on my Flist would firstly be small (since very few people on my list are actually shamanists), and the people who got me to join LJ in the first place like Mel and Kim wouldn't have gotten on my Flist at all.

But I too just 'randomly' friend people. And actually, I tend to search for new people via interests. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

:)

Awesome!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

:D It is very cool in that sense.

[ayellowbirds.livejournal.com]

It is because you are made of awesome and rad.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

So are you! :D :D :D

[ayellowbirds.livejournal.com]

Pfft. I am, at best, 15-20% awesome and rad. I am mostly made of hippie, with about 5% ticklish.

[aloiis.livejournal.com]

*Hugs back!*

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

:) My related moments tend to go, 'Holy crap! I know people in places I've never been to in my life!' Tis coolness!

And I know way more Pagans online than I do in real life. I know maybe 2 Pagans in real life, and only talk to one of them very often. I love being able to talk to Pagans who have a grip on what they're doing (well, read the entries of Pagans who know what they're doing :) ). I love being able to talk to freaks like me.

I always read everything. :) Which is half the reason why I end up spending so much time on the internet, along with how long it usually takes me to get my thoughts together enough to post something.

*hugs* Thank you for letting me see into your life.