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[katallison]

Sometimes I have wished that LJ would develop a functionality that would let you bookmark a particular point in your friendslist when you log off -- planting a temporal stake, metaphorically speaking -- and then, when you return, go to that point and catch up on posts in actual, rather than reverse, chronological order.

And yet, that would cheat me of such strange temporal/topical loops as the Great Frienditto Imbroglio, which apparently appeared, flared to fever pitch, and has now subsided to steady burn state, all in the eleven hours between my departure for work this morning and my return from the gym this evening. I have a perverse love for stumbling on such things in mid-uproar, and then backtracking through everyone's posts looking for Entry Zero.

(And are there *really* people in the world half-witted enough to go around blithely giving out their LJ password out to strangers? Mercy.)

Comments

[lyra-sena.livejournal.com]

are there *really* people in the world half-witted enough to go around blithely giving out their LJ password out to strangers?

um, yeah this is my question too. Isn't this the first thing you're taught? Don't talk to strangers and don't give out your passwords to people! Good lord. I still have no idea what the heck this friendsditto thing does or is for, but why would you give your password to someone you don't even know? Then they have access to all your friendslocked posts. And for that matter, your entire journal. They could start posting as you! OMG. Utterly stupid.

Ooooh -

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

A friendslist bookmark is an excellent idea. Have you suggested it to the lj team?

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why anyone would give out their password, but apparently they are. It seems utterly insane to me.

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

I just got home from work and am starting to work backwards towards the last thing I read. Which means that I'm seeing something called frienditto everywhere and I have no freaking clue...yet. I just thought you might find that mildly amusing. :)

I was told that LJ claims it's too expensive/difficult to give us a bookmark. However, I didn't ask directly -- just whined loudly to people without any power to fix my problem. Maybe the desire for one just has to reach critical mass?

[theseashore.livejournal.com]

Hi Kat! I ran across your journal from a link from Anna's, I think? I've been meaning to say hello for awhile. Was thrilled that you still have your XF stuff up on your page. (Motel 3:00 still breaks me seven years later...sigh.)

Did you actually find post zero?

"And are there *really* people in the world half-witted enough to go around blithely giving out their LJ password out to strangers?"

*shakes head in wonder* I'm sure the gene pool police will be around for them soon enough. *shakes head more*

gene pool police - good term

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I call those kinds of police by that quaint and unpopular phrase, "the laws of physics".
I just wish people wouldn't ask to be yanked up short by those kinda police quite so often while *I'm driving near them.*
And yes, there really are people that trusting, naive, dim, and clueless.
But you knew that...
(Cue the blank bovine stare, please.)
After the kind of Friday I had at work, I'm not merely certain of that. I'm sure that everything silly bit of funny behavior that Terry Pratchett ever wrote about will be done by somebody, at some point, right in front of me.
(No, we don't need drooling, too. Faulkner-style rural staring is plenty, thank you.)
Right now, I'm certain that there's people out there who will do ten unlikely things before breakfast, and look at you blankly when you point out that any one of such foolishnesses will lead to two dozen truly unlikely things happening to them before dinner. And probably evil ones.
"Oh, really?"
(Okay, that's enough footage of the staring. Really. Stop now, or I'll scream. And don't you hate it when you can't stop, once you got started?)
But enough personal drama.
Deep breaths.
Boring=good.

Re: gene pool police - good term

[theseashore.livejournal.com]

*Grins* I feel your pain. The gene pool police thing isn't mine, really. I saw someone with a button that said that once. A police officer with a whistle in his mouth, holding up a hand as if to say, Stop! And it said: Gene Pool Police; You, out!

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

I make my own bookmarks by making private posts to myself, but it's not as versatile as I'd like.

[meri-oddities.livejournal.com]

(And are there *really* people in the world half-witted enough to go around blithely giving out their LJ password out to strangers? Mercy.)

God, you know I thought the same thing when I first heard of the whold f-ditto thing. But apprently, there are some really stupid people out there.

BTW -- I love the idea of a bookmark.

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I have wished that LJ would develop a functionality that would let you bookmark a particular point in your friendslist

I manage that by not logging off; I leave the page open, put the machine to sleep if I'm leaving for a while, and come back to where I was later.

But I live in fear that a cat will walk across the keyboard, I admit.

Sadly, there are people in the world half-witted enough to do just about any damn thing.