Are people interested in their interests?

[pne]

I just read this entry by thedward and it made me think briefly.

Many people list a lot of interests on their userinfo page, but do they write about their interests? Do I?

Comments

[bride.livejournal.com]

They'd have to implement some kind of weighting scheme. Right now, it just assumes that you're equally enthusiastic about all of them.

[joyitude.livejournal.com]

I know I write a lot about one of them. -pokes the interest between 'chocolate' and 'christy'-

Fred

[pne.livejournal.com]

You keep mentioning that name, as you did here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/cuddled/91320.html) as well... yet I thought you didn't want to mention that name in public entries?

I'm a bit confused.

Or do you think mentioning the name is fine if it's in "just a friend" contexts?

Re: Fred

[joyitude.livejournal.com]

It's fine as long as I'm referring to him as a friend and nothing else. Once it gets mushy, then we're switching to Fred.

[asciident]

It seems that most users treat their interests list as "interests and likes" rather than strictly interests.

Also, it seems people tend to write about events and (to a lesser extent) feelings rather than interests.

[denial-land.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in every single interest I listed at teH DJ (http://www.deadjournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=denial_land&mode=full). Some of them are inside jokes, some of them just look weird, but I don't think I have to constantly write about them, you know :)

interests_with_more_than_four_words

[pne.livejournal.com]

I think your interests with more than four words are kinda ugly since they use underscores.

Why not use 	 (which is a tab but displays as a space in browsers and is shorter than either   [a real space] or   [a non-breaking space])?

I learned that from Maryam.

Re: interests_with_more_than_four_words

[denial-land.livejournal.com]

oh, nifty.. thanks for the tip (I think I'll keep them though.. I've grown so used to them ~_^)

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

I just went through my interests and decided I've written posts that could be considered "about" (rather than just mentioning) roughly 75 of my interests -- that's exactly half at the moment, though I'm going in now to delete a couple duplicates.

For the most part, though, my entries ARE the "this is what I did today" type -- I started the journal as a way of keeping up with people when I went to college, and it's mostly stayed that way.

[pthalo]

i don't think i actually write-write about them, but they do sort of tie into my enties somehow. I don't think I've made any entries that touched on quite a few of my interests, but then, i do work most of them into my entries from time to time. i don't think it should be a conscious thing, really. no "I'm going to make an entry about achilles tendons today!" but if it's summer, and if I happen to see someone walking barefoot with a really gorgeous achilles tendon, it just may find its way into my entry.