It's a small world after all...

I was reading through sci.lang [forgive me, father, for I have sinned; I have started reading Usenet again] and saw a thread on which languages have "ð" and "þ" sounds (voiced and unvoiced "th"), and saw a post which enumerated several languages.

Interesting, I thought—and then I saw that it was written by n_true! It's a small world :)

Friends-only posts

OK, a while back, in another entry, I had a poll about friends-only posts.

I made the answers available to me only because I thought some people might not want to have their views public. However, most participants agreed to let me put their name to a score, so for those who are interested, this is what people answered.

(If I have your name listed and you'd prefer it to be removed, or if you'd like a statement removed or anonymised, leave a comment or send me email, preferably by Sunday evening.)

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So in summary, a fair number of people use friends-only posts, and the tendency is to make either fairly few (10-20%) or most (>70%) entries friends-only.

Reasons are varied; the most popular among the ones offered was "when it's about a sensitive subject". In retrospect, perhaps I should have offered, "because there are certain people whom I don't want to read my journal" which also seems to appear a certain amount (and which I've also seen in the userinfo of some people—who sometimes add something along the lines of "If you want to read my journal, I'll probably add you", implying "if I can make sure you're not one of those people I want to prevent from reading my journal").