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[mrs617]

How in the world did you end up with a blog on Live Journal?

Who told you about it?

What drew you to wanting to share your thoughts with strangers, who might or might not be homicidal maniacs?

Share your story! Tell me/us how you ended up here and then I'll share mine.

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[moredetails.livejournal.com]

It's a boring story, trust me. :)

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

Ch! Maybe to you...

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

I've told it before, too, so I don't feel like it. Oh hey, I'll make something up:

So, I was like walking along in an enchanted forest and suddenly the stars formed a pattern that said "LiveJournal" and so I decided to look it up online, and I figured it was a message from God so here I am!

[davrtayl.livejournal.com]

1) my brother gave me an account, back when you still had to have a code generated to be able to invite someone.

2) my brother. golly!

3) actually, i started it out because he and his girlfriend (now wife) were on LJ all the time, and i thought it sounded really irritating and pretentious, so i wanted to get one of my own and make fun of them. i was pretty mean. but then i started using it and really loved it. i use it more than they do now. as far as homicidal maniacs go, stay the heck away from me, weirdo!! i have a gun!!!

but it's not loaded.

ah crap, i gave away the chink in my armor! or armour, if you prefer.

[joy-of-abigail.livejournal.com]

I wanted a LiveJournal... don't remember why; just to write, I guess? And I looked up people interested in "Starbucks" and ended up getting an "invite" back when they were required from a guy at Liberty University, where I ended up going for a year of school. He was the roommate of a great friend of mine! How random is that?! LOL...

[t-jay.livejournal.com]

skreyola introduced me to LiveJournal back on New Year's Day, 2002. I used it as my way of expressing the concerns as I did back then. If you ever had times on my hands and went through my archives, you would see how open I was back then. I was very lonely and unhappy with my life. Thankfully, things are much different now.

Regarding your second question...for the first couple of years I was on LiveJournal, everyone who knew me did so in an intense personal level, which was my my posts were more "open." Then people found my journal based on my interests, and then I added more people to my list who were on mutual friends' lists, etc. So my journal became less "intense" and more impersonal, somewhat. Part of the fact that my journal became less "intense" was because I made life changes that enabled me to re-establish my warped sense of humor and not be so serious...and as I have added more people on my list from political and religious backgrounds, I have tried to make my journal as accommodating to different viewpoints as possible while not compromising my own moral and spiritual standards.

So, my journal went from sharing my deepest thoughts with a couple of close friends to a fun way of communicating with people from all over the US and the world. Originally, I kept in touch with people from IRC, and then I wound up adding friends from others' LiveJournal friends' list, as have some with me.

I started in early 2002 with one friend and ended it with maybe 4. Then other people whom I knew from chats and even my own hometown added me...and then others who shared the same interests found me as well...and things have grown from there! LOL

[617.livejournal.com]

I was shiftworking and got one to keep up with tenbaset and other friends because I wouldn't see them very often.

tenbaset and chelseabun

I like to ramble and if somebody actually took the time to read then that was their problem! They couldn't do anything to stop me. That and I found the 'interests' database. Michael Card has a lot to answer for!

I took the shocking step of visiting LJers last year. As a result of that I seemed to have a influx of people on my friends list. It was scary, it was, becoming popular. Then I decided to go back to the USA and do an LJ Tour of people on my friends list which is how I ended up in Fallon... is that what you meant by "how you ended up here"?

[johanna85.livejournal.com]

My family used to subscribe to Crystal's newsletter Polished Cornerstones, which was terminated a couple months after she got engaged.

One day, I had a little extra time at work...so I randomly searched her name up on google and I found her LJ [Bad username or site: jessiecrystal/ @ livejournal.com]! Although she'd switched to blogger, I kept up with her friends list...

And the rest is history... a short one at that, I know =)

[johanna85.livejournal.com]

hey! what happened to the rest of my previous comment??!!

...jessescrystal. Although she'd switched to blogger, I kept up with her friends list...

And the rest is history (short history at that, I know) lol

(And I'm posting this for the third time because I keep spelling her username wrong *groans at the thought of flooding hollys reading's inbox with deleted comments*)

Let my people go!

[art-freak.livejournal.com]

I believe I first found out about LJ through Patrick___. After months of prodding him with a stick to his back, he finally didn't give me an invite...but about that time they suddenly parted the livejournal waters and let me have one without an invite...otherwise I'd probably still be out in no-blog land:P

Re: Let my people go!

[http://users.livejournal.com/patrick___/]

LOL!!!
I don't know if I had the ability to invite anyone at that time. Either that or I didn't know how. I really had no idea that you wanted one that bad!

I think you're right...I do apologize

[art-freak.livejournal.com]

lol..I was being a little factious (maybe not the right word?) I think I remember now that you didn't know how, but it all seems kind of blurry at this point.

Re: I think you're right...I do apologize

[http://users.livejournal.com/patrick___/]

LOL, that's alright. I'm sorry I didn't help you get one back then!

[cafemusique.livejournal.com]

I was already posting my boring life online at another site (http://cafemusique.mydeardiary.com/). I didn't like the interface all that much, and I was attracted by the security of being able to friends-lock.

I ended up buying a 2-month paid account, since I didn't know anybody who used LJ to give me an invite code.

Pretty boring.

[macbethann.livejournal.com]

I was introduced while still in high school by little_oblivion. I've been here since about January 2002. I started with a different account, and didn't update that one much, so switched to this one two years later.

little_oblivion

I'm not sure, but I've met so many great people that I don't really care if some homicidal maniac out there (admit it, Holly ;) is stalking me.

[singersdd.livejournal.com]

THIEF!

It's a good thing you're cute!

My story:

It's all feyfern's fault. She sent me an e-mail one day and told me that if I wanted an update on my nieces and nephew to check out her LJ page. Well, I did and decided that I needed to get one of these myself. So I did. My first post was Jan. 31 and I was immediately addicted. Having real life friends feyfern, krikketgirl, and joyfulgal on here really helped make the transition to internet friends easy.

Now I have a paid account with 100 icons. I think I need professional help. :)

BTW: hollys_reading: you friended me on my very first post. SQUEEEE! :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/patrick___/]

A few years ago my friend Jesso suprised me by making me a blog here! That was back when you couldn't just join up, someone had to invite you or something. Anyway, she had one of her friends design the layout too (although it's different now).

I first heard about LiveJournal because of an old girlfriend. :-) She had a journal that she regularly used on here, and that got me hooked. When Jesso saw how much I read and replied on everyone's journals, she figured she should make me one too. :-) (Jesso was one of our mutual friends).

I've always been the kind to share my thoughts with could-be homicidial maniacs. :-D I'm just one of those sharing kinds. ;-) Seriously though, long before blogging developed, I was a pretty regular user of message boards, which can have an almost LiveJournal feel to them sometimes. (Although far too chaotic and flammable). I guess I'm pretty trusting of others. I know most people online are people not that different from you or me.

[mrs-g.livejournal.com]

I think [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] told me about it and convinced me to start many moons ago. But, I can't say for sure now.
I was a very different person, even then. I was still in my transformation stages. (now that I think about it, what were those that read it thinking?? haha).
So, this is why I changed my username and started fresh. Yay for me.
Now, I just like attracting homicidal maniacs?

[b1ff.livejournal.com]

yep it was moredetails alright for me too., I think it was while I was in Malta.

[kimana83.livejournal.com]

How in the world did you end up with a blog on Live Journal?
I wanted to keep in touch with my in-laws better and I needed something to fill lots of dead time at work.

Who told you about it?
Said in-laws. All but the youngest two have LJs.

What drew you to wanting to share your thoughts with strangers, who might or might not be homicidal maniacs?
LOL. Maybe the fact that I like to talk about myself? Hehehe.

[mairesue.livejournal.com]

I found Live Journal via the Harry Potter fandom. I started reading journals of some people in the fandom (hillarygayle for instance)and thought to myself - I want a journal. So late one February night I set one up.

I think for me wanting to share my thoughts with strangers was a way for me to get some adult contact. I was at home with two small kidlings and desperate for something to keep me sane. Now I have a wonderful flist with some real great friends with whom I would like to stay in contact for a long time.

I saw you on krikketgirl and was interested in your family and reading your families newsletter then when krikketgirl did the surprise card shower when I was moving and going through a lot of stuff you had a card in there for me and I knew once I got online again we would be friends. And I am so glad that we are.

[ex-blackswa.livejournal.com]

1) I am one of those freaky people who randomly discovered LiveJournal while surfing the net, and, though I knew no one with an LJ, I decided to build one anyhow.

2) I recognised the names of others whose work I'd read in mags, and boldly asked them if I could friend them :).

3) It wasn't the homicidal maniacs I wanted to impress, but I am a writer and I guess all of us have some ego somewhere which makes us want to write to be read by others and not only ourselves. Interestingly enough, my very first LJ entry received a comment just after I posted it, from a random guy with a freaky userpic of a skull with a blood-covered knife driven it. He wrote, "Goodnight, babe."
And that was my introduction to public blogging :o).