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

[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.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

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.

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

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.

[melusina]

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

[serenography.livejournal.com]

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.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

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

[drakeofdross.livejournal.com]

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).

[anoel.livejournal.com]

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.

[skuf.livejournal.com]

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!

[chimosa.livejournal.com]

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

*looks around*

*darts away*

[sadface.livejournal.com]

Everyone is determined to mock me this week.

>:(