Are you friends with yourself?

[norwich36]

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!

Comments

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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.

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

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

[amandajane5.livejournal.com]

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

Heh, like you had to ask.

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

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

[ladydreamer.livejournal.com]

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!

[bzoppa.livejournal.com]

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.

[mskatej.livejournal.com]

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!

[amandajane5.livejournal.com]

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*

[obursts.livejournal.com]

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.

[xtremeroswellia.livejournal.com]

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

[the-rejection.livejournal.com]

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.

[pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com]

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.

[bittermint.livejournal.com]

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

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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

[elandrialore.livejournal.com]

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.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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?)

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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).

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

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.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Those sound like good reasons to me!