So why do you people read me, anyway?

[wispfox]

I was wondering, while driving home, what it is about my journal that makes you people want to read it.

And, for those of you who know me in person, if that is why, or if there are other reasons.

So - share! Tell me what brings you to read my journal, if you are so inclined. My curiosity wants to know!

Comments

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I added you because we kept commenting on the same posts by other people. I keep reading because the mix of topics is fascinating to me: enough in common for me to get a foothold, but enough that's totally out of my experience to be fun to learn. Plus the silliness.

Same reasons apply to IM.

[sambc.livejournal.com]

honestly - you seem like an intersting person.

Stuff happens in your life, and you make observations, that interest me.

I found you via friendsfriends, if that matters. Just seems an interesting read...

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

Interest in what you choose to say.

Datapoints and access to the workings of your mind.

An opportunity to find things out I wouldn't otherwise have known.

Funny things.


(More or less why I read anyone's journal, I suppose, although NRE-type feelings modify some defaults there.)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I started reading your journal after seeing you at AP10. (I'd have done so after AP9, but I didn't learn you had a journal until AP10.) Since then I've found that your posting style is every bit as quirky and interesting as your conversational style, so I keep hanging around.

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

I know you in person!

[volta]

Who are you, again?

[sandhawke.livejournal.com]

pick one:

• to have some idea what's going on in your life, so if you show up in my kitchen, I wont say something totally insensitive
  
• it's a cheap and easy way to get to know you better
  
• because you keep finding better and better pictures of yourself....
  

[ayalanya.livejournal.com]

because i like the way you think and enjoy reading/knowing the different things you think about, because you write interesting stuff, because i know you, because i understand a lot of what you say (which isn't always the case with friends/people i date)...stuff like that. you're fun to read, and even when it's about something negative going on, your writing is as enjoyable for me as a good book^.^

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I like to read what you have to say and the way you say it.

[beowabbit]

1. I know you in person.
   
2. I like to keep up with what’s going on in your life, so I’m on the right page the next time I see you.
   
3. I enjoy your writing style.
   
4. I enjoy the way you think.
   
5. You have both fascinating and unusual similarities to me, and fascinating and unusual differences from me.
   

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Entertaining links. :-)

[rosefox]

Because I friend anyone who friends me back and read my friends list unfiltered. More data is always better!

[verylisa.livejournal.com]

I got a very high match with you on OK Cupid, so I thought I'd read your journal for a while to get a better handle on who you are.

*waves timidly*

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

I've just started reading ("hi!"), and from what I've seen thus far you're well worth getting to know better... plus other people I know think highly of you....

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't started reading it yet, so this post is a little opportune. You came up on jodawi's okcupid list, and the name rang a bell for whatever reason. I was trying the userids as journals for him so he could figure out who these people were, and I clicked them to see if they worked. I recognized your user icon from APC10! Weird. Anyway, um, hi. :) Please if you review my journal at all to see who the heck it was who added you, excuse my recent melodrama.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

because i had met you in person and this was a good way of getting to know you better. when i first started reading your journal, we were friendly aquaintences. now i consider you to be a friend of mine. and i think that knowing you through LJ has helped that.

in general i read LJ so that i can be my secret hermit and still indulge in my sociability. :) it's is a perfect expression of contradiction for myself. :)

n.

Re: why read you?

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Well, we first started talking about necks in sunyata__'s journal. Then we started talking about energy work and then we started talking about all sorts of other things.
I find you an interesting person and I like your writing. I'm hoping to meet you at some point so that I can list the knowing you in person part too.
I'd even say that you've become a friend even though it's been a relatively brief time and we've never interacted in person.
I'm quite glad to have you in my life to the degree that LJ lets us do so.

Re:

[majes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what he said. I had also met you in RL and it inspired me to look more into who you were. We share several interests, and your thoughts seem to align nicely with mine.

[echospiralheart.livejournal.com]

I met you at the energy shares and then working group at homeport. You have good energy, and I am comfortable with you. When I first came to live journal, you graciously accepted me into your list of friends. Come to learn, you weren't quite sure who I was in the beginning under the name of echospiralheart. You were one of the first journals that I read. Your write what is in your heart. You share anger. You share joy. I like people who aren't afraid to share. It makes me want to share. Your journal has helped me get to know you. My heart reaches out to you in the things that you share. You share but don't expect anything in return. You are just you. I remember one of your posts where people don't seem as real if you haven't met them in person, but for me, seeing the written word ... people sharing this way ... I get to know them. You are someone I think of as friend.

[galaxygirl78.livejournal.com]

Well, I am fairly new to LJ (since just b4 Christmas) and you are a friend of a good friend of mine intenselaura.
Though you are a stranger, I find you silly, insightful, and you post some fun stuff. I find sometimes, we think alike...
Not really sure what the point to LJ is if you don't venture out and read others! Sort of a voyeurous thing for me I s'pose...

[ccprince.livejournal.com]

1) There's something about reading someone who is so open -- which I think you might deny being, but you're more so than I
2) Silliness and linkiness
3) Gotta second the comment about the lovely userpics. Meant to comment before, but didn't manage to.

Besides, you've got me thinking about fractals and graphics and music again. I'd share my master's thesis with you ("Genetic Algorithms Applied to Music Composition") but it's some of the crappiest music ever written.

Why read?

[linus52.livejournal.com]

I read your journal because I like what you say.
I found your journal through reading something you wrote in ashliana's journal. We seem to have some things in common, (bab5, sluggy, geekiness)
and I like your outlook on life.
So I added you to my friends list.

I've said "HI" a few times, but I guess I am not sure if I am a pest or just tolerated.

[ex-helygen254.livejournal.com]

We're the same person and I like to know what I'm up to. :)

Seriously, I like you and am enjoying getting to know you better. Since I'm horrible at keeping up with online conversations (not that I'm great using any other method), this seems the best way to do it.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I haven't been keeping up with LJ enough, recently, but one of the things I like most about your journal is that... that I don't know you. And yet, despite not really knowing you, I have access to so much of your internal processes in your journal! I find it really enlightening and interesting. I feel privileged to be able to read it.

I feel like I should ask the same question in *my* journal, since I pretty much *never* talk about my own internal processes. What on earth do people get out of filling out silly polls about jumping in front of trains? :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I've said "HI" a few times, but I guess I am not sure if I am a pest or just tolerated.

My replying to people via LJ is... sporatic.

Also, I have not been able to get any sense of you, so am unlikely to friend you back. I simply don't have time to read people I already read, let alone more. :)