I want to go out for a root beer float and a walk in the park with my sweetheart. Maybe take her to the local tiki room.

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Your LiveJournal Analysis

Your Livejournal's Age

According to the information you provided, your LiveJournal was created on 2000-05-19, meaning that your journal has been around for 965 days. What does this mean?

You are something of a dinosaur on LiveJournal, having been around for over 2 years. You might even have one of those early adopter accounts. You probably joined LiveJournal long before most of your friends, long before it was as popular as it was today. As a result, you are something of an icon in the community, and more than likely well known. Don't let it get to your head, or are you already bashing those poor newbies?

I have been around here a long time, and was an early adopter before it was made a permanent account. I wouldn't call myself well known in the community, because I don't get involved with the lj-politics, am not member of the lj-staff, or a pretty girl. I suspect that cute little Newton has a much larger fan-base than myself. In a community with over 200,000 folks posting weekly, I'd wager that *maybe* 500 people have even heard of me via my own LiveJournal.

Your LiveJournal Friends

Now let's talk about your friends list. You indicated that you have 65 LJ friends.
You have something of a large friends list, and let's be honest, you probably don't really read them all, do you? Okay, so your journal has been around, it's to be expected that you have a fairly large friends list. Some of these people might have been names you added at some point in the past, but you can't really remember why. A good portion of these journals are probably from people you only know in passing, and you don't really consider them friends as much as friendly folks.

That's not entirely true, many of the folks I read only update every week or so (some far less often - see juliabee and mootpoint) and a few communities are composed of pictures that can be eye-catching (see kittypix and urbandecay). I've always said that my "friends list" was more of a "folks I'm currently reading" list. Though, to be honest, I have trimmed my list down pretty recently, mostly to get rid of language that I don't feel like reading, continuously angsty / angry folks, folks with multiple journals and only post in one, folks that don't link to me and have gone private, and the like. I do confess to peeking in on journals that link to me and that I don't link back to every so often, just to scan and see how they're doing and what they're like. I imagine that a few of those will become available as some are "friends only" and many people quickly sever links that aren't reciprocated. If someone writes an entry that's over a paragraph or two long, I'll skim and look for primary subjects to decide if I want to read the whole post.

139 users also have listed you as a friend.
This is where things start to get silly. You are way too popular for your own good. Riiight. Too many people list you as a friend, and probably you have far too many people listed yourself. You don't know half of these people, and half of them don't know you, and you skim by each others' posts. Though it's possible you are some kind of LiveJournal God.

Finally in this category, you have a friends to friends-of ratio of 0.46762589928058. This is an extremely low ratio, meaning a lot more people add you than you add them. If you have a high number of them, this could mean that you are one of those tremendously popular people who everybody wants to have on their list. But since you are so popular, you are arrogant and don't add them back. Or, it might mean you just don't like looking at other peoples' journals.

I think that a healthy chunk of this is people that've linked and abandoned journals or secondary "b-list" journals that folks create just to read other people's stuff without adding them to their "primary" friends list. (See circlek / sirclik) I suspect that my "limelight period" has long since passed, considering that I'm not on many link magnet folk's lists anymore. I think that if I were on a major hub's friend's list (like brad) more folks would flow through my journal just as sloppy seconds. Get someone like that to mention your journal and your readership will jump by a factor of two or three... at least for a little while.

Your Posting Habits

You have indicated that to date, you have made 5260 entries into your LiveJournal. This gives us an average post rate of 5.4507772020725 posts per day.
You are posting more than twice a day, making you quite the busy and avid LJ user. You don't hesitate to make your daily updates, telling the world what's been going on, and you may even update a few times in the day. More than likely you are throwing in web quizzes and random thoughts from time to time, and you might even see it fit to hop on to the computer and update with every little mood swing you encounter!

I used to post far more often than I do now. I think that observation might've been more accurate a year or so ago than it is today. (Considering that I now seldom touch LiveJournal during business hours) Now, I'm guiltier of little nit-noid posts in private to remind myself of things to do and other assorted little strings to tie around my finger. I'd say most folks see two or three posts of mine a day, more on weekends.

Your Commenting Habits

According to your information, you have posted 27423 comments and have received 26737 of them over the lifetime of your journal. Let's see what this information can mean.

First of all, this indicates that you have been getting an average of 5.0830798479087 comments for every LiveJournal entry that you make.
With an average of at least 2 comments per post or greater, you enjoy a healthy dialogue with your friends and get a lot of response to what you have to say. You might also be posting those silly web quizzes, or making entries that are so interesting or so unusual that people can't help but to comment. Either that, or you just have a buttload of friends.

A more fair measure of how many comments you get might be your average number of comments per post per friend, which is 0.078201228429365. This may seem low to you, especially if you have lots of friends.

The final statistic is the ratio of your comments to comments you get. Your ratio is 1.0256573287953. The higher the ratio, the more talkative you are compared to your friends, comment-wise.

Again, this is fallout from a year or so ago. There were times when I'd get as many as 50 replies to a silly post of a picture regarding a comic book or Newt being a cutie-pie. If I took last year into account, I doubt that I have any conversational strings that go more than 10 deep at the most. (That’s what instant messenger is for, anyway... though it is fun seeing the log of a long silly thread.) I'd say that perhaps I could distill folks who comment in my journal down to about 10 base people, with a few sidebar stragglers. For what it's worth, the same posts seem to garner replies. Newton, unique memes like nationstates, or being weird and posting in Morse code. I rarely get more than a handful of replies to a post, if any at all. For what it's worth, I don't comment nearly as often as I used to in other folks journals, either.

That's it for now! Perhaps there was something insightful in this analysis, and perhaps you learned absolutely nothing. Feel free to post your results on your own LiveJournal, and invite your friends to take the LiveJournal Analysis today!

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