Note from The Management

[susandennis]

I added some new people to my friends list today so if you landed here because you discovered this and wonder why, I have no good reasons.

Periodically, I do a search for new journals. They have to be mostly unlocked (or I won't know if I want to add them or not). They have to be in English (sadly, this is the only language I know). Generally I use ages 50-80 as my only search terms. I have nothing against younger people but, often, nothing in common with them either. I weed out those who make heavy use of memes (not my cuppa). And those who clearly write for a specific audience that isn't me (heavy use of initials for names with no explanation of who is who - I'm guessing DH does not mean Dick Head but that's how I read it so my mileage varies).

EDITED Later: The above guidelines are what I use when I look at adding journals. I don't use them for the ones I already have. Although I will always read Dick Head when I see DH no matter who writes it.

Also for those I add, I read for a while and may well drop for many of the same silly reasons.

Just so you know. I now return you to your regular programming.

Comments

[geordie.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm lucky to have I survived? I go through months of having nothing worth saying and I don't even pass the age test.

[susandennis]

Oh dear! I have now edited the entry. I was only talking about NEW additions to my friends list! I'm keeping the old - even the kids like you.

And, honestly, like one of my LJ friends commented to me not long ago - I don't need fascinating entries every day or even any day. I like - just as much - reading about how regular people spend their time and think about things. And I like the pictures and I even like the stuff that I don't understand - like your car stuff and your audio stuff. So you are not going anywhere. And, you'll meet the age requirement some day.

[geordie.livejournal.com]

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to... make a complex and subjective process simple.

Sorry :D

[photoholic62.livejournal.com]

Although I will always read Dick Head when I see DH no matter who writes it.

An now, SO will I!!

:)

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

Dick Head is much better than what I think. DH used to be followed by call, as in DHcall which is the Drunk Horny call at approximately 2am.

Dick Head call is about the same. *grin*

[zhaneel.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you!

[susandennis]

Thanks, Back atcha!

[susandennis]

Yes, DH in most journals stands for dear husband which has always struck me as silly and mostly used very disingenuously so that's why the Dick Head.

[stasia]

*laughs*

Well, I'm too young to be added (I was poking around and found you), but on many LJs, 'DH' means Deathly Hallows, the final Harry Potter book.

*goes back to poking*

Stasia

[susandennis]

Oh Stasia! See, you disprove my rule by pointing out what I am missing. And the age rule is very lose but I can't see your journal to add you. But thanks for stopping by!

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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I already know my journal, which has been on your friends list for several years now, has nothing to worry about with your age range -- but I couldn't help but to think of the age disparity when reading this entry. After all, I'm over 20 years younger than you are.

BUT -- honestly, unless they are people I already know, my criteria is somewhat similar, at least in that younger people are far less often all that interesting to me, or have much in common with me, and they never have -- not even when I was their age and the same kind of people were my peers. I always got along much better with people at least a couple of decades older than me.

It's probably easier for you to weed through to the more interesting journals with that criteria, though, given the age distribution (http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml) of LiveJournal users. In the past I have tried browsing using the "random" button, and far too often I ended up either on something written in Russian (an oddly popular non-English language here, have you noticed?) or on a journal written by some vapid preteen girl. Yikes!

Honestly, of all the journals I read by people I met only on LiveJournal, yours is arguably the most interesting to me, and as such, an extremely rare find. I really never expect to find another one written by a total stranger that manages to hold my attention so consistently, due to its nice mix of observational detail and cheeky humor.
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[susandennis]

And I feel the exact same way about you. I often amuse myself by how addicted I am to The Story of Matthew! If the DLU isn't posted by 1:30 I get twitchy.

And you are right about the age thing - it is far more of a way to filter out the search terms. Honestly, I have learned a great deal about people 20 years younger than I am by reading The Story of Matthew! I am fascinated by how you think about things and what things matter most to you.

There have always been a lot of Russian journals here - in fact, the guy who wrote Semagic (the client app I use a lot) is Russian.

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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I have learned a great deal about people 20 years younger than I am by reading The Story of Matthew!

That's a very interesting thing for me to consider, given that I have never, ever thought of myself as a representative sample of people my own age, no matter what age I was.

But then, how I perceived myself and how others have perceived me have hardly always been the same. As I'm sure is the case for most people.
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[susandennis]

Well, see, I wouldn't know. You are about the only person your age who's life I know anything about! So probably I should not make the generalization but I do hear some of your thoughts and views reflected in characters your age on TV and those interviewed on NPR - enough so that they have a ring of truth to me. It's mainly more about what is important to you. What rings your chimes and what doesn't. The who of you.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

I thought everyone knew that "DH" stands for "Designated Hitter". At least in the American League.