Precisely! If you post stuff you're interested in, it is stuff you'd be interested in even if you weren't you.

Unless of course you were the evil Star Trek version of yourself, and had a beard and hated everything you now love. (Well, that's less evil Spock and more Bizarro, but you understand what I'm saying, right?)

And it never occurred to me that friending oneself helped keep track of posting. But my f-list is so big and I post so infrequently I think it's just easier to go to my "recent" page.