Playing with custom friends groups

[pegkerr]

I have finally figured out how to use custom friends groups and have been busy. Now I can set up friends pages just for my friends who are avid writers and readers, just for my friends who are in the Twin Cities, just for my friends who are interested in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings . . . and I can post to just those individual groups, too. I have another larger group for everyone who has ever wandered across my radar screen on LiveJournal, but I've fixed it so that I don't have to view all those people on my LiveJournal friends page at once. I have also taken some people off of my default friends page, but I'm still viewing them every day on a private friends page (usually because of language in their journal entries issues). I have a quick view page for the days I'm in a hurry and just want to read the few people I always want to read every day.

This is cool! So much more flexible.

Comments

[redbird]

It is cool.

It does look a little weird when I see the "lock" icon on things that I've sorted to avoid boring people (the talk-about-writing filter, especially) but where the group is basically "ask and I'll add you".

[lapsus-0-calami.livejournal.com]

you always seem so busy, how on earth would you every have time to filter for all those diverse groups?! I don't think that I could be bothered.

[tigergladys.livejournal.com]

I *love* friends groups, they make it so much easier to just write an entry and then include various people in the group than writing something and having to edit because certain people don't want to read it, etc.
I hope you don't make everything *too* selective, though, the diversity of topics in your journal is something I love about it.

Friends groups

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I agree; I don't mean to make my entries too micromanaged. But for example, I used my Twin Cities list today to let a select group of people who live in Minneapolis St. Paul know about a site that keeps track of places where you can eat vegetarian around here. That wasn't something that my readers in Australia particularly need to know. I can let my friends in Harry Potter fandom know about certain URLS, my friends in Lord of the Rings fandom know about other things. There will undoubtedly be some overlap.

But for the most part, most of my entries, including my entries about my book-in-progress I imagine I will continue to keep public.

Thanks for continuing to read and comment!

Cheers,
Peg

Yes, but . . .

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

even though it takes time to set up in the beginning, I hope it will help me save time in the end, e.g., setting up a quick view page, so I look at only ten or twenty people that I like to see every day on days when I'm short on time for LiveJournal. We'll see if it works out the way I hope or not . . .

[morganmalfoy.livejournal.com]

I love my customized friends groups too, but mine aren't usually to filter people by interest...mine are more along the lines of "wibble about guys without letting any of guy's friends see it" sort of thing.

And in case you were wondering, I love to read the writing stuff, and am a HP and LOTR fan. :)

-M

Re: Friends groups

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

While it's true that stuff about a place without context isn't much useful, one of the things I love about the LJ phenomenon is that people sort of bring a tinge of the flavor of a place to their LJs.

So, you know, I hope you don't focus in /too/ much... but then, someone else already said that.

(I'm interested in both Potter and LoTR, but I can't say I'm in the fandom for either of them.)