MyHair's Journal: My Take on Friends, Fans, Freaks and Foes

After reading some comments in bethanie's and Elwood P Dowd's journal entries about Slashdot friends I get the impression that some people feel it's a give/take thing, and friends/fans should be mutual.

I don't think that way, so don't be offended if you made me a friend I don't return the action.

I'm using the Friend function more like a bookmark. I've added a friend when I think they'll periodically have posts or JE's that interest me so I can quickly locate said posts/JE's later. I'm also enjoying the friend-of-a-friend feature to locate other JE's and posts since my chosen friends seem to have chosen interesting friends, too. And I also check my fans from time to time, too, although many are on the friend-of-friend list, anyway.

I haven't done it yet, but I've considered using the Foe list as a second interesting bookmarks list. I might want to separate social interests from technical interests, so I could put Bruce Perens, Sanity, fv, and MikeRepass on one list for tech interests and TechnoLust and Surak on the other list for social interests. I just realized there is a "Foes of Friends" but no "Friends of Foes" function, so I guess I'd put the tech interests on my Foe list and the social interests on my friend lists. On the other hand, since I have only two social friends I could make them Foes and just click to their friends lists individually.

Well I started babbling, but all I'm saying is don't take it personally if you're not on my friend list or even if you end up on my foe list!

(Yeah, yeah, there's "Freaks" in the title but none in the message...so sue me.)

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