norwich36 | Are you friends with yourself?

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Are you friends with yourself?

This particular poll of randomosity was inspired (a) by

toadstoolsmiles magnificent confidence in her own self-love (if you don't know what I'm talking about, go here and here) and (b) looking up a couple people's profiles today and noticing they had themselves friended.

[Poll #1043523]

And if you would friend yourself, assuming you were a different person friending the person you are now, why would you friend yourself? Please take this as an excuse to talk about how cool you are in the comments.

Self-praise: it's the next best thing to sex with your own clone!

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I would friend myself because I would want to read my awesome Smallville reviews. And also to read that one hilarious f-locked entry about my search for non-fanfic slavefic and how I ended up scarred for life.

X would friend Y because Y has such nice friends. it'd be like joining a very congenial party.

Aww, that's a nice way of looking at it!

I post pretty pictures of Tom Welling! Of course I would friend me!

Heh, like you had to ask.

Of course! I'm actually a little surprised at people who wouldn't friend themselves--if your posts are interesting enough to yourself to post them, wouldn't you want to read them? (Or in your case, stare at all the lovely eyecandy?)

I am obsessed with CKR and I post pics of my boobs. I'd definitely friend me. *g*

Seems like a good reason to me.

*Stares, mesmerized, at your icon.* That really is one of the loveliest shots of CKR I've ever seen.

If I turned into a man for a day, I would be a transsexual, and very uncomfortable with that. I like my cunt just fine. Who wants a shotgun when you can have a semiautomatic? CLONESEX.

Also, I friended myself after an incident in which our now ex-roommate boys had no damn food in the house, because Mark spends all his money on video games and taco bell and Daniel is such a mooch that he doesn't own a freaken car (and he's scared of me so won't ask for it). So basically, Mark doesn't even have money for gas so they have no food. All three girls in our house posted "LOL THEY HAVE NO FOOD" at the same time. So I friended myself to get a screencap of the entries back to back on my flist.

LJ! Fun with passive aggression!

Your icon! LOL!!!!

So you have no curiosity whatsoever about what it would be like to have a prostate gland? (And also a penis, but I'm actually more curious about the former).

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ladydreamer.livejournal.com - 2007-08-23 02:57 (UTC) - Expand

I wondered about that once, if people were doing it to "up" their friends' number.

Someone then explained that it's easier to see one's own entries on their fpage rather than having to click back and forth between friends' and self-page.

So, yeah, I shamelessly upped my friends' count.

Hee! I don't think it's really shameless, though. I just didn't realize how widespread a practice it was.

I thought everyone friended themselves so they become a signpost on their flist. I post most days, and I use my entry as a way to figure out where other posts on my flist are. Does that make sense? I'm pretty sure people don't friend themselves just because they think they're awesome (even if they do think that).

I would totally friend me. My LJ is entertaining!

Oh, what a sensible reason to do it--though that, I imagine, works better for you since you post every day, whereas I don't. (I can usually remember that I've already read certain entries, though).

I didn't think people friended themselves for reasons of conceit--I assumed it was so they could see their own entries more easily. It was the second part of the poll that was the self-love part.

And yes, your LJ is totally entertaining! Everyone should friend you.

Oh, and I meant to say something about the friending yourself thing, I totally do it like Kate says, to keep track of the last time I posted - it makes it easier to figure out where to stop. *nods*

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Though as I said to her upthread, I don't post daily, so it wouldn't work quite as well for me.

My answer's much like

amandajane5's first. Except, replace Tom Welling with Michael Rosenbaum. Though I do also post pretty photos of Tom Welling on occasion...

I also friend myself to keep track of the posting.

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.

LMAO. You know I always wondered when I saw people do that. Thanks for the poll! It was very amusing :D

You're welcome! I have to admit, I knew some people did it but I didn't realize it was so common.

Heh, maybe I should friend myself just to see how often I post and whether it should be less/more often. *g* Especially since I've been all artsy recently.

Hee! Yeah, but I do that just by looking at my recent entries page. I never knew that was a reason why people friended themselves.

I'd friend me because I'm all about the happy!Clex. And full of crack-based theories about SV.

And because I have an adorable son and an almost-as-adorable collection of four-footed family members.

Those sound like good reasons to me!

I probably wouldn't friend myself, because I drive myself insane. :P

Oh, I'm sure you'd actually be very interested in your own posts--think of all the common interests you'd have with yourself!

I like my stories now so of course I would want to read them if I wasn't me. Interestingly, I might actually like them more if I wasn't me.

Oh, yeah, that reminds me of the poll

bagheera_san did recently about whether people get turned on by the porn they write themselves or not.

I'd friend myself if I wasn't myself because sometimes I make myself laugh, so I'm assuming if I wasn't myself that I'd still laugh--unless....I'm only funny to myself---*GACK!*

*sits in corner consumed with paranoia and fear of self stalking...*

Dang...Sex with a clone, hunh? I knew I killed Lex's clone too soon. Rats. He could have grown a beard and had sex with Lex whilst conspiring with a bearded Clark from another dimension to *kill* Lex. After a threesome. Wow! that's something I haven't done in a while! Erm, story-wise, I mean. After this birthday, I've passed the age where threesomes are a possibility anymore. *sniffle*

Geez, I'm babbling all over your comments, sorry.

If you want to read sex with ~~clones~~ AU versions of Lex and Clark, you should definitely go read

astolat's latest story.

I didn't realize there was an age limit on threesomes! I think you should challenge that, really.

And everybody with a brain would friend you because you are always hilarious and entertaining and write REALLY HOT porn that is sometimes very scary. What's not to love?

I'd really never understood why people friended themselves, so reading the responses to this has been enlightening. Though I still don't think it's that difficult to click on my Recent Entries page to see my own posts. I tend to figure, if I'm looking at my friends page, it's because I want to see what other people have posted recently. I already know what *I've* posted.

The wording of your second question confused me completely. But if the question is, if I were somebody else, would I friend this Slinkling who isn't me? Sure. I make myself laugh. And I like my own writing, at least most of the time.

I honestly could NOT figure out how to word that question in a non-confusing way, though I knew the X and Y stuff wasn't helping, really. I also had no idea all the reasons people might friend themselves. LJ is just one big learning experience!

IMHO, everyone should friend you because you are teh awesome.

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Because I write about the sorts of things I like to read about. . .

Yes, exactly! I am baffled by people who say they wouldn't friend themselves.

Of course I'd friend my other self. We have so much in common. :)

It's interesting to hear people's reasons for friending themselves. I did always wonder.

Yes, I had no idea people had so many different reasons for doing that.

I think I am not at all cool so no, I would bore myself too much. *nods*

Oh, please. If you found (a) a fellow Lee lover who (b)also really loved Lois and (c)posted all kinds of amazing meta about BSG and Smallville and who also (d)made amazingly cool vids and (e) did fabulous vid recs, you KNOW you would friend her in a second. The fact that she also lived in Australia would be an additional point in her favor, I suspect. In fact, since she lives in your neighborhood and also has a dog, you could even go on walks together.

*Is a little jealous of your new mirror-universe friend who lives on the same continent as you*

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I friend myself as myself (at least I think I have in this journal, I definitely have in my RL one) because I've got my bookmarks on the friends page and everything is all right there. Also, I like looking at my icon when I re-read my own entries. I've got a journal on GJ for a Roleplaying site and you need the icons to even tell who's writing the post (well, you can usually tell, but it's first person and easier to tell with the icon).

I would friend myself as somebody else because I don't write much and when I do, I'm usually announcing a story update (or answering a quiz, and those are fun, too).

Oh, sure, that makes sense (though I see all that stuff on my "recent entries" page, too).

I talk about Vidding and like the best show IMO (The Office), why wouldn't I friend me? I may not be super interesting but I have a lot of fandoms so I'm sure something would connect.

I didn't get the friending yourself but I really like seeing how my entries look on my Flist so now I do it. Plus it's easy to see if someone has me friended or if I'm in a community because it's bolded.

Oh, I might now have to friend myself, because you're right, it *would* make it a lot easier to see if I'm a comm member or have someone friended.

I said yes on the latter, because I'd probably want to follow my meta (being all about the meta). But I bet I'd also think I was full of myself (and totally boring) gahahaha!

LOL! I'm sure you'd find that your fascinating meta made it all worthwhile.

I'm cool!! I'm also a little slow and easily confused...

*looks around*

*darts away*

Yes, you're definitely cool and ought to be friended!

Everyone is determined to mock me this week.

>:(

It wasn't knocking, it was being supportive! At least one person who took my poll went and voted for the clone option in Kate's poll. Really, I wasn't trying to mock you.

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