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Jan. 11th, 2003 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denny (my comments interspersed in italics)
Being in the 1-6 month range means that you've likely settled into a routine as far as your posting habits are concerned. By now you probably have most of the functions figured out, though you might still learn a trick or two along the way. You probably still add friends on a regular basis, though that's not always the case. You are still something of a youngin in the LJ community, but at least you are not a newbie.
You have something of a large friends list, and let's be honest, you probably don't really read them all, do you? Based on the age of your journal, which isn't much, many people might view this as a little excessive on your part. Sure, you might just have a huge circle of friends, but many well established users have smaller friends lists. Surely you are viewed as something of an extreme case.
You also have been listed as a friend by 37 users.
That's a decent amount of people paying attention to your journal. Given the fact that your journal is still young, you've done a fairly good job of advertising yourself. Probably got all your friends to add you, maybe joined a few LJ communities to meet some new folks. All in all, a large list for the time you've been around.
Finally in this category, you have a friends to friends-of ratio of 1.3783783783784.
This is a relatively high ratio, meaning you add quite a few more people than have added you to their friends list. This may be a sign that you tend to add people fairly randomly to your list, although there is also a good chance that you simply do not advertise your own journal much, and don't expect too many people to be adding you back.
By updating your journal at least once a day, and from time to time even twice, you view your journal as something of a news outlet for your life. You almost never miss an opportunity to keep your journal appraised of what's been going on in your life. You probably also post the occasional silly webquiz or something like that to flesh things out. In short, you make good use of your Livejournal
First of all, this indicates that you have been getting an average of 2.888198757764 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 0.05663134819145. 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 1.9978494623656. The higher the ratio, the more talkative you are compared to your friends, comment-wise.
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!
(by the way, I had to correct the spelling of 'analysis' all the way through this... 'analasys' indeed!)
Your Livejournal Analysis
Your Livejournal's Age
According to the information you provided, your Livejournal was created on 2002-10-21, meaning that your journal has been around for 81 days. What does this mean?Being in the 1-6 month range means that you've likely settled into a routine as far as your posting habits are concerned. By now you probably have most of the functions figured out, though you might still learn a trick or two along the way. You probably still add friends on a regular basis, though that's not always the case. You are still something of a youngin in the LJ community, but at least you are not a newbie.
Your Livejournal Friends
Now let's talk about your friends list. You indicated that you have 51 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? Based on the age of your journal, which isn't much, many people might view this as a little excessive on your part. Sure, you might just have a huge circle of friends, but many well established users have smaller friends lists. Surely you are viewed as something of an extreme case.
I do actually read my friends page far more often than my friends update it... I also look at my 'friends of friends' page more or less daily. I happen to waste vast quantities of time online while avoiding things I should be doing, such as work :)
You also have been listed as a friend by 37 users.
That's a decent amount of people paying attention to your journal. Given the fact that your journal is still young, you've done a fairly good job of advertising yourself. Probably got all your friends to add you, maybe joined a few LJ communities to meet some new folks. All in all, a large list for the time you've been around.
Thanks people, love you too ;)
Finally in this category, you have a friends to friends-of ratio of 1.3783783783784.
This is a relatively high ratio, meaning you add quite a few more people than have added you to their friends list. This may be a sign that you tend to add people fairly randomly to your list, although there is also a good chance that you simply do not advertise your own journal much, and don't expect too many people to be adding you back.
I add people because I find them and/or their journal interesting. People are welcome to add me or not, hopefully on the same criteria, but it's their friends list and they can use whatever criteria they feel are appropriate... just as I can and do. It irritates me when people expect (or even demand) to be added to friends lists reciprocally... there are people on my friends list who haven't placed me on theirs, and I'm on friends lists of people who I haven't added, and that's how it should be.
I think it should be called 'reading' or 'monitoring' rather than 'friends' anyway... although I think a majority of my friends list is either people who are my friends, or people that I would like to be friends with.
Your Posting Habits
You have indicated that to date, you have made 161 entries into your Livejournal. This gives us an average post rate of 1.9876543209877 posts per day.By updating your journal at least once a day, and from time to time even twice, you view your journal as something of a news outlet for your life. You almost never miss an opportunity to keep your journal appraised of what's been going on in your life. You probably also post the occasional silly webquiz or something like that to flesh things out. In short, you make good use of your Livejournal
...if not of my life :)
Your Commenting Habits
According to your information, you have posted 929 comments and have recieved 465 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 2.888198757764 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.
This took me by surprise, considering the amount of 'fluff' that I post - quizzes and other nonsense. I was expecting this ratio to come out way under 1 comment per post...
A more fair measure of how many comments you get might be your average number of comments per post per friend, which is 0.05663134819145. 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 1.9978494623656. The higher the ratio, the more talkative you are compared to your friends, comment-wise.
I was expecting that one - I do post a lot of comments, ranging from fairly serious thoughts to casual *LOL* type nonsense. I think it's important in online communities to post even the latter kind of comments whenever you've got time to do so, or people don't realise that you're reading what they've written and thinking about it and/or them.
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!
(by the way, I had to correct the spelling of 'analysis' all the way through this... 'analasys' indeed!)